Why Terraform Pipeline Failures Still Take 30 Minutes — and How We Cut Them to 2

The Problem

Pipeline failures interrupt development workflows. The typical remediation process:

1. Scan through thousands of lines of build logs to find the error
2. Understand the root cause
3. Write the fix
4. Test the change

For common, repetitive failures — missing Terraform variables, incorrect region names, syntax errors—this wastes significant engineering time. We measured an average of 30 minutes per failure in our environment.