I settled on 1 subfolder, 1 “stack” (stage/app, for example dev/login/frontend). This gives us fast deploy time and easy and painless way to destroy/re-create.

I settled on 1 subfolder, 1 “stack” (stage/app, for example dev/login/frontend). This gives us fast deploy time and easy and painless way to destroy/re-create. Databases could go a separate folder if state if we had any. The point of Terraform is to have configuration in version control not to have a giant unmanageable state file.