Time-to-Live Stacks: Auto-Destroying Stacks
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In the dynamic landscape of cloud-based software development, platform teams face the continuous challenge of balancing the need for innovation with the imperative to control cloud costs and security. Pulumi Cloud’s new Time-to-Live (TTL) Stacks feature directly addresses this challenge by empowering teams to manage infrastructure lifecycles automatically, mitigating the risks associated with stale infrastructure and resource costs ballooning. Creating temporary environments for development, testing, or staging is a common practice in the lifecycle of software development.