What does terraform import allow you to do?

Terraform import allows you to bring existing provisioned infrastructure into your Terraform state file. This is particularly useful when you have infrastructure resources that were created outside of Terraform and you want to manage them using Terraform going forward. When you use the import command, Terraform associates the existing resources with your configuration, enabling you to manage those resources with Terraform without having to recreate them.

This command helps maintain the state of your infrastructure, allowing Terraform to track and modify resources as needed based on your configuration files. Other options do not accurately reflect the capabilities of the import feature: exporting resources, synchronizing resources, or deleting resources does not describe the primary functionality of the terraform import command.