Terraform backend + visibility in one place

Terraform backend with live visibility built in

Provision Cora as your remote backend. Design partners turn every plan into living diagrams, drift alerts, and compliance evidence their teams can act on immediately.

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Remote backend with locking, history, and scoped tokens your teams control.

Embeddable infrastructure diagrams update after every apply for instant collaboration.

Automated compliance checks ship with downloadable evidence for audit.

What design partners receive

Guided backend migration

Pair with our team to validate the Cora backend before you move production state.

Response inside 1 business day

Design partners receive a direct Slack channel for questions and rollout planning.

Security & compliance review

We walk through data flow, retention, and guardrails with your security stakeholders.

Backend configuration

terraform {
  backend "remote" {
    hostname = "thecora.app"
    organization = "AcmeCorp"

    workspaces {
      name = "networking"
    }
  }
}

Preview deliverables

Remote backend migration runbook tailored to your environments.
Access to live diagrams, drift signals, and compliance evidence.
Weekly product sessions to review feedback and roadmap.

Why teams switch to Cora

One backend. Three outcomes every run.

Remote state, live diagrams, and compliance guardrails stay in sync without extra tooling.

Diagrams that stay accurate

Generate architecture, networking, and blast-radius diagrams automatically—embed them in docs or export as images whenever plans change.

Compliance handled in-line

Policy checks, drift detection, and audit-ready evidence run with every state update so security stays ahead of the rollout.

Shared context for every team

Product, platform, and security teams review the same live state history, diffs, and annotations without hunting through Terraform logs.

Visual Terraform mapping

Visualize Terraform state in minutes, not days

Load a seeded environment or drop in your own Terraform state. Cora anonymizes sensitive values in your browser, then renders living diagrams you can explore, filter, and export instantly.

Preview environment ready

We preloaded the AWS Networking Blueprint sample so you can explore networking, shared services, and blast radius visuals instantly.

Production-grade 3-tier architecture with multi-AZ deployment, including VPC, public/private subnets, NAT gateways, Application Load Balancer, ECS Fargate services, and RDS database.

Upload your Terraform state

We anonymize sensitive data in your browser before rendering the diagram.

Upload Terraform state (.json)

Tip: we seed the anonymization with a deterministic hash so diagrams stay recognizable without exposing secrets.

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React Flow

Auto-detect VPCs, subnets, and cross-account edges as soon as your state loads.

Filter by Terraform address, tags, or resource type in seconds—no manual graph edits required.

Export or embed diagrams with one click so platform reviews stay visual and current.

Security & compliance

Guardrails catch drift before auditors do

Every new state version evaluates your Terraform configuration against policy packs, threat signatures, and your custom rules—then overlays findings directly on the diagram so the blast radius is obvious.

Guardrail packs map to CIS, SOC 2, ISO 27001, and custom policies you configure per workspace.
Findings surface alongside the diagram so teams see blast radius and remediation paths instantly.
Evidence exports bundle impacted resources, Terraform diffs, and recommended fixes for auditors.

Live guardrail findings

Streaming

aws_s3_bucket.shared-assetsCritical

Public read access detected across two policies.

Enable block public access and rotate object ACLs.

aws_db_instance.paymentsHigh

Storage encryption disabled with internet-facing subnet.

Enforce KMS encryption and move to private subnet.

aws_security_group.alb-ingressMedium

0.0.0.0/0 allows SSH on port 22 for 14 days.

Limit ingress to bastion CIDR and expire unused rules.

Resource history

Know who changed what—and why

Cora versions every Terraform state stored in the remote backend, captures guardrail decisions, and keeps annotations tied to the exact resources that changed.

Compare any two Terraform state versions to see exactly when resources changed.
Track guardrail overrides and annotations alongside the configuration timeline.
Export versioned diffs for incident timelines and compliance reviews in minutes.

aws_rds_cluster.payments

State version comparison

Version diff

Diff between State v129 and State v128 captured automatically from Terraform backend history.

State v129

Nov 08, 2025 • 14:02 UTC

terraform apply (platform-oncall)

Current

instance_class: db.r6g.2xlarge
storage_encrypted: true
kms_key_id: arn:aws:kms:us-east-1:123456789012:key/cora-payments
rotation_window: 7 days

State v128

Nov 05, 2025 • 17:41 UTC

terraform apply (ci/deploy)

instance_class: db.r5.large
storage_encrypted: false
kms_key_id: —
performance_insights_enabled: true

Modified

instance_class
db.r5.largedb.r6g.2xlarge
storage_encrypted
falsetrue
kms_key_id
—arn:aws:kms:us-east-1:123456789012:key/cora-payments

Added

rotation_window
New value7 days

Removed

performance_insights_enabled
Removedtrue

Search & navigation

Search and jump to any resource across accounts

Type a resource name, tag, or Terraform address and watch the graph filter in real time. Deep links open the exact AWS console page so engineers can confirm changes without hunting.

Search by resource name, tag, Terraform address, or AWS ARN with instant filtering.
Select any node to highlight upstream and downstream dependencies instantly.
Group results by workspace, account, or service so platform reviews stay structured.
Jump from any node to the AWS console in one click with scoped deep links.

Example search: "load balancer"

aws_lb.app-main

Application Load Balancer

Open in AWS

•Account: production-network
•VPC: core-platform
•Targets: aws_ecs_service.web

aws_rds_cluster.payments

Aurora PostgreSQL

Open in AWS

•Account: production-data
•Subnet group: private-data
•Security group: aws_security_group.database

aws_vpc.core-platform

VPC

Open in AWS

•Region: us-east-1
•Subnets: 6 active
•Connected accounts: 4

Design partner program

Shape how teams run Terraform with Cora

Join a small cohort refining remote backend, visualization, and compliance workflows alongside our product team.

White-glove onboarding for your first remote backend migration.
Private feedback sessions with product and engineering every sprint.
Early access to visualization, compliance, and drift features before GA.

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What we build together

Pilot features like per-workspace policies, visual diff embeds, and compliance attestations weeks before general availability.

Bring real-world state files, and we will configure Terraform backend migrations, diagram templates, and guardrails with your team live.

Share feedback in scheduled sessions or async, and see it land in production releases within the same cycle.

Quick answers

The essentials for rolling out Cora’s Terraform backend.

Do we replace Terraform Cloud?

You can run Cora as your primary remote backend or layer it on top of Terraform Cloud and S3. Either way, no additional agents are required.

How fast is onboarding?

Most teams update one backend block and complete their first apply in under 15 minutes with help from the guided walkthrough.

Can we keep data inside our VPC?

Yes. Run the lightweight Cora proxy so decrypted state never leaves your network while the app stays fully featured.

What do design partners receive?

Design partners co-shape the roadmap, get white-glove onboarding, and unlock early access to visualization and compliance workflows before general release.

Ready to co-build Cora’s Terraform backend?

Join the design partner cohort to shape diagrams, compliance, and guardrails with our team in lockstep.

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