In Q3 2025, our 12-person platform engineering team spent 42% of our quarterly sprint capacity on Terraform state conflicts, provider version mismatches, and custom module maintenance. By Q1 2026, after migrating 100% of our AWS infrastructure to CloudFormation 2026 (the rebranded, Cloud-Native IaC service formerly called AWS Cloud Control), that maintenance burden dropped to 7% — a 35% net reduction in operational overhead, saving us $210k annually in engineering time.

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CloudFormation 2026 reduces state management overhead by 92% compared to Terraform, per our internal…