--- title: "Problem Statement" chapter: true draft: false weight: 12 --- # Challenges of cloud infrastructure provisioning ### People Central IT struggles with manual workflows that are slow and error-prone. Developers want to improve application delivery, but are stymied by manual provisioning workflows. ### Process Developers still request infrastructure via ticketing which is slow. Policy enforcement is manual or non-existent which impacts productivity and risk. ### Tools Teams use multiple provisioning and management tools which decreases productivity. Infrastructure automation lacks automation that is scalable, consistent, and reusable. --- ## Business impact using Terraform ### Increased Productivity Reduce time spent using manual workflows to create, share, manage, and provision cloud infrastructure. ### Reduced Risk Improve security posture, reduce non-compliance, and maintain operational consistency for cloud infrastructure. ### Reduced Cost Reduce unnecessary cloud spend by up to 40% from idle, orphaned, and over-sized cloud resources.