The Terraform AWS provider has surpassed 5 billion downloads. This milestone reflects not only how far Terraform has come, but also how much the cloud ecosystem and the partnership between AWS and HashiCorp has evolved to support our joint customers. It took eight years to reach the first billion downloads, and just two more to reach five.
As we look ahead to AWS re:Invent 2025, we wanted to explore what’s driving this momentum and what this milestone reveals about the current state of enterprise cloud infrastructure.
»What this milestone says about cloud infrastructure
Five billion downloads isn’t just a milestone for Terraform — it’s a reflection of how dramatically infrastructure management has evolved over the years. When the Terraform AWS provider first launched, most organizations were still experimenting with cloud, managing resources manually, or relying on siloed automation tools. It took eight years to reach the first billion downloads because the industry itself was still transitioning.
But as cloud adoption accelerated and environments became more distributed — spanning multiple clouds, on-premises data centers, and edge locations — the complexity grew. And so did the need for consistent, scalable, secure infrastructure automation. That shift is captured in the exponential download curve: after the first billion, the next five arrived in just two years.
In this new landscape, infrastructure as code (IaC) moved from a developer-led practice to an enterprise imperative. Terraform’s growth mirrors this transformation. The rapid adoption of the Terraform AWS provider reflects a broader change in how teams build and operate:
- From manual provisioning to policy-driven automation
- From isolated deployments to collaborative, API-centric workflows
- From static infrastructure to adaptive, intelligent systems
The acceleration in downloads tells the story clearly: as infrastructure became more dynamic and distributed, the need for unified, automated management became foundational to modern cloud operations.
»AWS and Terraform are fundamental to modern operations
When we launched the Terraform AWS provider, the cloud ecosystem was much different. Back in 2014, infrastructure environments were much simpler in comparison. Today, most companies are using a combination of public and private clouds, and on-premises systems.
Many struggle to manage the complexity. In fact, over half of organizations rank hybrid cloud complexity as their top infrastructure challenge, according to the 2025 Cloud Complexity Report.
Through all this evolution, AWS has remained a constant — the platform where many organizations take their first step into the cloud. For countless teams, downloading the Terraform AWS provider is among the first actions they take when getting started with AWS. That enduring pattern underscores the importance of the AWS and HashiCorp partnership in helping customers simplify and scale infrastructure management.
»Reliable releases, continuous improvement
One constant in the Terraform AWS provider’s journey has been its regular release cycle. New updates are published every week, delivering incremental improvements, new resource coverage, and support for the latest AWS features.
Over time, the number of available AWS resources in the provider has more than tripled. With 1,564 resources and 630 data sources, the AWS provider spans the full breadth of AWS services — from foundational capabilities like compute, storage, networking, and identity management to advanced services for AI, analytics, and event-driven architectures, including Lambda, RDS, SageMaker, and Bedrock. Whether automating a single S3 bucket or orchestrating a multi-region, enterprise-scale environment, the provider delivers consistent, reliable workflows that scale with your needs.
The HashiCorp and AWS teams continue to focus on efficiency by increasingly using automation and AI-assisted tooling to accelerate development, validation, and testing while maintaining reliability. This steady pace of iteration helps organizations keep up with the rapid expansion of AWS services while ensuring Terraform users can adopt new functionality without major disruptions.
»Built together with AWS
The Terraform AWS provider’s success is closely tied to the strength of its partnership with AWS. Both teams work to ensure that customers can easily integrate new AWS capabilities into their existing Terraform workflows.
Behind the scenes, dedicated engineers from HashiCorp and AWS collaborate to bring new resources online quickly, often in step with AWS launch announcements. This ongoing alignment helps developers and operations teams take advantage of AWS innovations faster, while maintaining a consistent IaC approach. With re:Invent coming up, we’re excited to continue providing our customers with the latest innovations right away. Stay tuned for more the week of re:Invent.
Growing AWS contributions have also helped to fuel the massive growth in downloads. Together, we constantly make it easier for customers to access the services and features they need to accelerate, strengthen, and optimize their cloud infrastructure. And with a group of incredibly dedicated individuals on the AWS provider team, the partnership is constantly expanding to help customers in new and better ways.
That collaboration extends to how the provider itself is built. At AWS re:Invent 2025, HashiCorp and AWS will present:
- “Accelerate Terraform Provider Development Workflows with Amazon Q Developer CLI” (Session ID: DVT216) on Friday, December 5 | 10:30 a.m. | Venetian Level 3 | Murano 3305.
The session highlights how HashiCorp is using Amazon Q Developer CLI to dramatically speed up Terraform provider development — sharing real-world insights, workflow optimizations, and lessons learned from our own engineering teams.
Through efforts like this, the AWS and HashiCorp partnership continues to make Terraform faster, more reliable, and better aligned with the pace of AWS innovation.
»AI is reshaping infrastructure, Terraform is the foundation
As organizations accelerate their adoption of AI, the nature of cloud infrastructure is transforming just as quickly. AI workloads introduce large-scale compute demands, multi-region architectures, new patterns of orchestration, and increasingly stringent requirements for governance and security. This is not just more infrastructure, it's different infrastructure, and it must be provisioned and managed with precision and consistency.
This shift is increasingly visible in Terraform downloads and usage. The rapid acceleration from one to five billion downloads aligns with the explosion of AI initiatives across industries. Many enterprises using large-scale AI workloads are also scaling their provisioning automation, and Terraform is at the center of that shift. HCP Terraform patterns show increased activity around GPU-optimized EC2 families, EKS clusters, and managed AI/ML services such as Bedrock and SageMaker— all foundational components of modern AI architectures.
Three foundational infrastructure trends are accelerating Terraform downloads faster than ever:
»AI requires rapid, reproducible, high-scale provisioning
Training and inference workloads must scale up and down quickly, often across multiple accounts and regions. Terraform gives teams a predictable, codified way to build and rebuild these environments — from GPU nodes to feature stores to inference endpoints — without drift or manual intervention. As AI becomes more iterative, reproducibility becomes non-negotiable.
»AI amplifies the need for governance, security, and compliance
AI workloads heighten the need to protect sensitive data, control model access, and enforce strict identity boundaries. As cloud and AI environments grow more distributed, managing secrets and credentials becomes increasingly complex. That’s why many organizations pair Terraform with Vault. Terraform automates the provisioning of infrastructure, while Vault secures the tokens, certificates, and permissions that infrastructure depends on. Together, they provide a governed, end-to-end lifecycle for cloud and AI environments. They enable teams to provision consistently, protect identities and secrets, enforce policy-driven compliance, and scale operations with confidence.
»AI expands the adoption of advanced AWS services and Terraform meets teams where they are
AWS has released a wave of AI-related services across compute, data, orchestration, and inference. With more than 1,500 resources now supported in the Terraform AWS provider, teams can operationalize everything from Bedrock agents to SageMaker training clusters using a consistent infrastructure-as-code workflow. And with Amazon Q Developer CLI accelerating provider development, that coverage is expanding faster than ever.
»Expanding access with the AWS Cloud Control Provider
For organizations that need faster access to the latest AWS services, the Terraform AWS Cloud Control Provider (AWSCC) offers an alternative path. Built on AWS Cloud Control API, the provider enables immediate support for hundreds of AWS resources, reducing manual setup and expanding Terraform’s reach across emerging AWS capabilities.
The team is continuing to extend AWSCC with features such as Terraform Search, which aims to simplify resource discovery and configuration, improving how customers manage infrastructure through Day 2 operations. AWSCC Provider has complete coverage across all of its resources for Terraform Search.
»Next steps
The 5 billion download milestone is a reflection of how far cloud automation has come and how much opportunity lies ahead. Whether you’re looking to standardize provisioning, strengthen security, or accelerate your move to a unified operating model, Terraform and Vault offer a foundation built for modern infrastructure.
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