By Veronika Gnilitska - Turn click-ops AWS resources into Terraform/OpenTofu with AI and MCPs, using human review gates, independent verification, and a merge checklist.

By Yangci Ou - Terraform's AWS provider retries throttled requests with exponential backoff, but each request backs off blind to the others. Adaptive retry mode adds a client-wide rate limiter that paces requests once throttling is detected to avoid being rate limited.

By Yangci Ou - Pair OpenTofu's exclude flag with OpenTelemetry tracing to isolate and prove Terraform performance bottlenecks. A real-world story of cutting plan times from 7 minutes to 2 by pinpointing AWS Route 53 API rate limiting.

By Matt Gowie - A comprehensive guide to the various files that make up a Terraform and OpenTofu project. Learn what belongs in main.tf, variables.tf, outputs.tf, and other essential files for maintainable Infrastructure as Code.

By Yangci Ou - If your IAM trust policy isn't working with AWS IAM Identity Center SSO roles, it might be because us-east-1 does not have the region in the ARN while other regions do.