[jabiko]

> Can't be cheap to run the registry given the obscene size of some terraform providers.

Some providers are also hosted externally. I guess if traffic is going to be a problem they might also just switch to hosting every provider that is build on GitHub to GitHub releases (and hope that GitHub won't change its policy)

  curl -s https://registry.terraform.io/v1/providers/carlpett/sops/0.7.2/download/linux/amd64 | jq .download_url
  "https://github.com/carlpett/terraform-provider-sops/releases/download/v0.7.2/terraform-provider-sops_0.7.2_linux_amd64.zip"

  curl -s https://registry.terraform.io/v1/providers/hashicorp/helm/2.10.1/download/linux/amd64 | jq .download_url
  "https://releases.hashicorp.com/terraform-provider-helm/2.10.1/terraform-provider-helm_2.10.1_linux_amd64.zip"