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page_title: "State: Import Existing Resources"
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sidebar_current: "docs-state-import"
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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
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Terraform is able to import existing infrastructure. This allows you take
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resources you've created by some other means and bring it under Terraform management.
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To learn more about this, please visit the
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[pages dedicated to import](/docs/cli/import/index.html).
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