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How Cloud Contracts Now Charge for Terraform Plan Caching
In this episode of The Cloud Business Podcast, Lucas and Luna dig into a quietly controversial line item that's appearing in new cloud provider enterprise agreements: charges for caching Terraform plan outputs. They break down why providers are treating plan caching as a billable compute event, how it changes the economics of Infrastructure as Code for teams that run frequent plan-and-apply cycles, and what the 'Terraform cache tax' means for your monthly cloud bill. Lucas cites a specific example from a mid-stage fintech that saw a 12% bump in its CI/CD cost line after the…
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