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| page_title: 'State: Import Existing Resources' | |
| description: >- | |
| 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 about this, please visit the | |
| [pages dedicated to import](/cli/import). |