How does Terraform state file locking behave when using Terraform Cloud versus storing the state file directly in a self-hosted backend?
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- State: Locking | Terraform · docs.hashicorp.com
- Backends: State Storage and Locking | Terraform · developer.hashicorp.com
- Backend Type: s3 | Terraform · developer.hashicorp.com
- Backend best practices · docs.aws.amazon.com
- terraform/internal/backend/remote-state/s3/client.go at main · hashicorp/terraform · github.com