Managing Remote State with OpenTofu and AWS S3
When you first start experimenting with infrastructure-as-code, storing your state locally feels fine. But the moment you’re working in a team, or running production workloads, local state becomes a liability. Without a single, secure source of truth for your infrastructure, collaboration breaks down and you risk drift between environments.
That’s where remote state comes in. OpenTofu, the open-source fork of Terraform now part of the Linux Foundation and CNCF Sandbox, makes it easy to configure remote state using familiar backends like AWS S3.
In our latest video, we walk through:
Why remote state is critical for production and CI/CD pipelines
How to create and secure an S3 bucket for state storage
Configuring OpenTofu to use the bucket with native S3 locking
This setup gives your team a reliable, shared state store — without the overhead or cost of managed services. It’s a simple but essential step in running infrastructure-as-code properly.