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layout: "docs"
page_title: "Providers"
sidebar_current: "docs-providers"
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Terraform is used to create, manage, and manipulate infrastructure resources. Examples of resources include physical machines, VMs, network switches, containers, etc. Almost any infrastructure noun can be represented as a resource in Terraform.
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# Providers
Terraform is used to create, manage, and manipulate infrastructure resources.
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Examples of resources include physical machines, VMs, network switches,
containers, etc. Almost any infrastructure noun can be represented as a resource
in Terraform.
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Terraform is agnostic to the underlying platforms by supporting providers. A
provider is responsible for understanding API interactions and exposing
resources. Providers generally are an IaaS (e.g. AWS, GCP, Microsoft Azure,
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OpenStack), PaaS (e.g. Heroku), or SaaS services (e.g. Terraform Enterprise,
DNSimple, CloudFlare).
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Use the navigation to the left to read about the available providers.