Unable to save state open terraform tfstate permission denied

Question

I am creating AWS EC2 instances using Terraform.

$ terraform apply

I got the following output after executing the above command.

aws_instance.example: Creating...
  ami:                         "" => "ami-2d39803a"
  associate_public_ip_address: "" => "<computed>"
  availability_zone:           "" => "<computed>"
  ebs_block_device.#:          "" => "<computed>"
  ephemeral_block_device.#:    "" => "<computed>"
  instance_state:              "" => "<computed>"
  instance_type:               "" => "t2.micro"
  key_name:                    "" => "<computed>"
  network_interface_id:        "" => "<computed>"
  placement_group:             "" => "<computed>"
  private_dns:                 "" => "<computed>"
  private_ip:                  "" => "<computed>"
  public_dns:                  "" => "<computed>"
  public_ip:                   "" => "<computed>"
  root_block_device.#:         "" => "<computed>"
  security_groups.#:           "" => "<computed>"
  source_dest_check:           "" => "true"
  subnet_id:                   "" => "<computed>"
  tenancy:                     "" => "<computed>"
  vpc_security_group_ids.#:    "" => "<computed>"
aws_instance.example: Still creating... (10s elapsed)
aws_instance.example: Still creating... (20s elapsed)
aws_instance.example: Still creating... (30s elapsed)
aws_instance.example: Creation complete
Failed to save state: open terraform.tfstate: permission denied

Since, the EC2 instance is getting created but how do I save the state of my infrastructure as is showing permission denied in the last line.

Answer 1

Check the access permission of the directory in which you have placed your terraform files.

Just give it the appropriate permissions which are required and you are ready to go.

I hope it would resolve your query.