IaSQL's approach to managing cloud infrastructure as data provides the following when compared to IaC tools:

- No need to manage or modify JSON state files

- Provides a familiar interface for working with infrastructure resources so you don’t need to learn new syntax if you know SQL

- No need to reconcile or recreate existing resources. IaSQL automatically imports all your existing infrastructure into PostgreSQL as it facilitates a two-way connection between your AWS account and a vanilla PostgreSQL database.

- Treat complex or delicate infrastructure changes as transactions such that your AWS account is not left in a bad state if something goes wrong since there is a rollback functionality when that happens

- Better input validation. Typos are often caught by type safety and fk constraints instead of at `apply` with IaC tools

- Easier to inspect and make sense of large infra deployments. This is an example use case of how users save money on their AWS bill by removing unused ECR images https://iasql.com/blog/ecr-save/