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Actually terraform is supposed to address that exact problem itself.

Instead of copy-paste of json files or aws resources, you can write a terraform module to generate it.

If you need to copy paste a large chunk of terraform module it is time to schedule refactoring.

We do have a degree of abstraction through terraform modules, but I've found that the same copy-paste problem applies to the terraform that composes those modules together.

This is possibly (if not likely) moreso a result of creating our terraform modules in a suboptimal way due to insufficient expertise than a shortcoming of Terraform itself.

It is also largely a result of having a backlog of scheduled redactors that is longer than I'd care to admit.

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