I've gotten into the habit of manually creating a backup of the state file: # to view the state file $ aws s3 cp --quiet s3://terraform/production/terraform.t

I've gotten into the habit of manually creating a backup of the state file: # to view the state file $ aws s3 cp --quiet s3://terraform/production/terraform.tfstate /dev/stdout # to backup the state file $ aws s3 cp --quiet s3://terraform/production/terraform.tfstate > terraform.tfstate.bak