The blog article discusses the process of managing Terraform state more effectively by storing it in an Amazon S3 bucket rather than a local terraform.tfstate file, which poses problems such as leaking sensitive information into version control and causing issues when multiple users modify infrastructure simultaneously. The author initially encounters an error due to a name collision with another S3 bucket, which is resolved by renaming the bucket. After creating the bucket and setting its access control, the author configures Terraform to use the S3 backend, which requires reinitializing Terraform and migrating the state. This change allows for better state management and eliminates the need for local state files. The article also mentions using Earthly for reproducible builds in CI workflows and offers a brief promotion of Earthly's services.