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Cloud Contracts Now Charge for Terraform State File Locking
Episode 124 of The Cloud Business Podcast dives into the newest cloud contract gotcha: Terraform state file locking fees. Lucas and Luna break down how AWS, Azure, and GCP are now metering the time your state file is locked during terraform apply operations. Using a real-world example of a mid-size e-commerce company, they calculate how a 15-minute deployment window can cost an extra $200 per month in lock-time charges alone. They explore the technical rationale—preventing concurrent writes and corruption—and the business implications for teams that run frequent or long-lived deployments…
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