[ta1243]

If you think of the resource you are managing with ansible being your AWS account (or your VMWare system, or whatever), then I guess it makes more sense. That state (the account you manage) doesn't really change. (I don't use ansible but that is my understanding)

Having 3 different sources of truth (what is, in AWS, what should be, in the .tf, and something else -- in the statefile) can mean nasty 3 way merges, which i

But I don't manage thousands of different resources, I manage 50. It feels to me that the overhead needed to manage thousand struggles to scale down without bringing all the required baggage. It feels like kubernetes vs docker-compose.

That said, the concept of using an S3 bucked for storing state I saw elsewhere in these comments is an interesting idea so I may revisit terraform.