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Terraform

Terraform is an infrastructure-as-code tool for defining and managing cloud resources in files.

Written by Reflective Data experts · updated Oct 5, 2026

Teams describe warehouses, datasets, storage buckets and permissions in code, review changes and apply them consistently across environments.

It is a common way to manage data platform infrastructure on Google Cloud, AWS and Azure.

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