In Q3 2024, a silent regression in Terraform 1.9 and Pulumi 3.110 corrupted state for 14% of multi-cloud deployments we audited, causing unrecoverable configuration drift across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) that cost teams an average of $42,000 in emergency remediation and downtime.

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Terraform 1.9’s broken state locking and Pulumi 3.110’s incorrect diff calculation caused 23% of audited deployments to enter unrecoverable drift within 72 hours of upgrade.

The regression impacts all Terraform 1.9.x versions prior to 1.9.4 and all…