Contract Drift

Q: How is contract drift different from infrastructure drift?

Infrastructure drift compares your live infrastructure against your IaC templates (Terraform, CloudFormation). Contract drift compares your infrastructure against legal obligations in your contracts, a fundamentally different and often more critical baseline.

Q: What are common causes of contract drift?

Common causes include deployments that change configurations, auto-scaling into non-approved regions, security policy updates, and team members who aren't aware of specific contractual requirements.

ClauseOps

Contract drift occurs when your live infrastructure configuration silently deviates from the obligations specified in your enterprise contracts. Unlike infrastructure drift (which compares against IaC templates), contract drift compares against legal commitments. Contract drift is especially…