Terraform S3 Backend Setup: Skip the Table
Storing your state file in a remote backend that supports encryption is one of the ways you should be protecting your state file. Many choose to use the AWS S3 Remote backend to do exactly that! Until very recently, this consisted of using S3 to stor...
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Glen Ogilvie
This article seems to fail to mention why DynamoDB was used, and why a lockfile in S3 can now be used. S3 didn't used to be strongly consistent, it was eventually consistent... ie, one could write a file, and someone else read the file, but get the same version.
How does the backend deal with two people running terraform at exactly the same time.. which one gets the lock? does one overwrite the other?