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Why I Use Terragrunt Over Terraform/OpenTofu in 2025

Axel Mendoza explains how Terragrunt evolved from a DRY orchestration tool into a pattern-level infrastructure platform that solves real architectural limitations in native Terraform. He compares workflows, workspaces, and Terraform Cloud, showing why Terragrunt remains the stronger choice for multi-environment setups in 2025.

www.axelmendoza.com/posts/terraform-vs-terragrunt

Explicit Terragrunt Stacks: 2x Faster Runs Using Provider Cache

Juan Felipe Reyes Marles benchmarks explicit stacks against implicit ones with provider caching enabled. Results show a 2x speedup in warm-cache runs, translating to hours saved monthly for DevOps teams running dozens of daily plans.

medium.com/@juanfelipereyesmarles/explicit-terragrunt-stacks-2x-faster-runs-using-provider-cache-1693c0335dad

Automate AWS Backup with Terraform

Marko Milosavljevic walks through creating IAM roles, backup vaults with KMS encryption, and lifecycle policies using Terraform modules. The setup enables consistent, automated cross-region replication for DynamoDB, RDS, and more.

devopsonthetrail.com/automating-cross-region-backups-in-aws-with-terraform

Aurora User Management with Infrastructure as Code

Dave Hall demonstrates how to provision Aurora PostgreSQL users without bastion hosts by combining the RDS Data API with terraform_data resources. The approach covers app users, read-only ops accounts, and automated secret rotation.

www.proactiveops.io/archive/aurora-user-management-with-infrastructure-as-code

Stop AWS Bill Shock: Build an Automated Cost Guardian with Terraform in 10 Minutes

The author presents BudgetSentinel, a free-tier Terraform project that monitors spending and auto-stops EC2 and RDS when thresholds are breached. The modular setup deploys SNS alerts, AWS Budgets, and a Lambda function in under ten minutes.

dev.to/mate32/stop-aws-bill-shock-build-an-automated-cost-guardian-with-terraform-in-10-minutes-2joa

AWS News (unofficial) 🔥

I recommend this project by Luc van Donkersgoed (fellow AWS Hero) to help you keep track of AWS news and blogs in one place. See what's hot, read summaries, search, set bookmarks and ratings, and categorize articles with tags.

aws-news.com

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