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Diagnosing Terraform State Locking Failures with S3 & DynamoDB Backends
When Terraform blocks on a state lock, the culprit is often a missing DynamoDB table, bad IAM rights, or stale lock items. This guide walks through the most common symptoms, ordered checks, and step‑by‑step fixes so you can restore normal operation quickly.