Importing Terraform Resources the Safe Way
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A practical procedure for importing Terraform-managed EC2 and Security Group resources into Terraform Cloud that avoids accidental destruction: prepare Terraform code and import commands first, set the workspace to manual apply and switch to CLI-driven (disable VCS webhook), run terraform init then terraform import locally for each resource, run a plan to minimize diffs (change console settings if needed), merge the PR, re-enable VCS so the remote plan matches the local state, confirm the run and verify tags in the AWS console; this workflow prevents the kind of outage that left a site showing an nginx welcome page.
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