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How are Data Sources Useful?

Explore the advantages of using Terraform data sources to reference external resources and manage dependencies in your AWS projects. Understand why data sources help maintain consistency, enable project modularity, and support infrastructure migration by ensuring Terraform monitors resource changes and existence during applies.

Terraform data source advantages

As your Terraform project grows, it can be sensible to break it up into smaller projects to make for easier maintenance. When this happens, you can use data sources to reference and utilize ...