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This is part of the series Startup that Failed . Infrastructure as Code: Why It’s Non-Negotiable Start with this rule: If you’re touching AWS console to create resources, you’re doing it wrong. Every resource goes through Terraform. IAM roles, security groups, RDS instances, S3 buckets, EKS clusters — everything. No exceptions. This isn’t about following best practices. It’s about three concrete problems: 1. Reproducibility. You will need to rebuild your infrastructure. Whether it’s disaster recovery, creating new environments, or (in my case) rebranding, you’ll need to recreate everything. With Terraform, it’s terraform apply. Without it, you’re clicking through AWS console trying to remember what you configured six months ago. ...