Configuration drift between Terraform/CloudFormation definitions and live cloud resources introduces security gaps, compliance failures, and operational instability. Manual drift detection is slow and reactive, leaving vulnerabilities exposed. A custom automated remediation workflow solves this by continuously comparing IaC state to actual cloud posture, generating correction plans, and applying fixes through governed pipelines. This reduces mean-time-to-remediate (MTTR) from days to minutes, directly lowering breach risk and audit preparation costs.




