»Terraform Cloud and Terraform Enterprise

Terraform Cloud and Terraform Enterprise are different distributions of the same application. This documentation refers to the application as Terraform Cloud, but applies to both Terraform Cloud and Terraform Enterprise except when specifically stated otherwise.

All distributions of Terraform Cloud used to be called Terraform Enterprise, and the self-hosted distribution was called Private Terraform Enterprise (PTFE). These previous names still appear in some supporting tools, like the tfe Terraform provider, which you can also use with Terraform Cloud.

»What is Terraform Cloud?

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Terraform Cloud is an application that helps teams use Terraform together. It manages Terraform runs in a consistent and reliable environment, and includes easy access to shared state and secret data, access controls for approving changes to infrastructure, a private registry for sharing Terraform modules, detailed policy controls for governing the contents of Terraform configurations, and more.

Terraform Cloud is available as a hosted service at https://app.terraform.io. Small teams can sign up for free to connect Terraform to version control, share variables, run Terraform in a stable remote environment, and securely store remote state. Paid tiers allow you to add more than five users, create teams with different levels of permissions, enforce policies before creating infrastructure, and collaborate more effectively.

The Business tier allows large organizations to scale to multiple concurrent runs, create infrastructure in private environments, manage user access with SSO, and automates self-service provisioning for infrastructure end users.

»What is Terraform Enterprise?

Enterprises with advanced security and compliance needs can purchase Terraform Enterprise, our self-hosted distribution of Terraform Cloud. It offers enterprises a private instance that includes the advanced features available in Terraform Cloud.