From Terraform Chaos to Enterprise Scale: How Platform Teams Enable Organization-Wide IaC Without Breaking Developer Velocity

Terraform has revolutionized infrastructure management, but manual IaC workflows are becoming the bottleneck. While AI accelerates development tasks by 10x, infrastructure bottlenecks still cost development teams $2.5M annually per 100 developers in lost productivity. Teams spend weeks deploying what AI helps them code in hours, with 76% of developers reporting cognitive overload from infrastructure complexity despite widespread Terraform adoption.