We're making an improvement to how plan policies are evaluated for Terraform, OpenTofu, and Terragrunt stacks. Currently, when a plan is evaluated against your plan policies, we include all resources in the payload, including resources with no changes (no-ops).

What is changing?

Going forward, we will no longer include unchanged resources in the policy input data. For the vast majority of customers, this change will be invisible. Plan policies that check for planned changes to resources will continue to work exactly as before.

If your plan policies reference or inspect unchanged resources (no-ops), you may need to update your policy logic. We've proactively identified accounts that could be affected and will be reaching out directly.

Why is it changing?

For most stacks, no-op resources make up the large majority of the plan payload. Removing them significantly reduces the size of data processed during policy evaluation, which means faster policy evaluation and better overall performance.

When is it changing?

The gradual rollout will start on the 1th April 2026. Have questions? Feel free to reach out. We’re more than happy to answer a questions, and assist in any way we can.