Resources

References

The following links provide additional reading material for the Terraform AWS Provider and using Terraform for IaC on AWS.

• Terraform AWS Provider (HashiCorp documentation)

• Terraform modules for AWS services (Terraform Registry)

• The AWS and HashiCorp Partnership (HashiCorp blog post)

• Dynamic Credentials with the AWS Provider (HCP Terraform documentation)

• DynamoDB State Locking (Terraform documentation)

• Enforce Policy with Sentinel (Terraform documentation)

Tools

The following tools help improve code quality and automation of Terraform configurations on AWS, as recommended in this best practices guide.

Code quality:

• Checkov: Scans Terraform code to identify misconfigurations before deployment.

• TFLint: Identifies possible errors, deprecated syntax, and unused declarations. This linter can also enforce AWS best practices and naming conventions.

• terraform-docs: Generates documentation from Terraform modules in various output formats.

Automation tools:

• HCP Terraform: Helps teams version, collaborate, and build Terraform workflows with policy checks and approval gates.

• Atlantis: An open source Terraform pull request automation tool for validating code changes.

• CDK for Terraform: A framework that lets you use familiar languages such as TypeScript, Python, Java, C#, and Go instead of HashiCorp Configuration Language (HCL) to define, provision, and test your Terraform infrastructure as code.