2026-04-21
OpenTofu: DynamoDB table removal for pure S3 backend
Our terraform-state module was upgraded from 5.1.3 to 6.0.0. This major version drops the DynamoDB table previously used for OpenTofu state locking in favor of native S3 locking.
Impact
The DynamoDB lock table (
Why
AWS introduced native locking in S3, making the DynamoDB table redundant. This simplifies the bootstrap infrastructure and reduces the number of AWS resources to maintain.