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page_title: 'State: Import Existing Resources' | |
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Terraform stores state which caches the known state of the world the last time | |
Terraform ran. | |
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# Import Existing Resources | |
Terraform is able to import existing infrastructure. This allows you to take | |
resources you have created by some other means and bring them under Terraform management. | |
To learn more, see [Import](/terraform/language/import). |