HashiCorp has announced the ability for Terraform Cloud and Enterprise customers to retrieve data from multiple business systems via Business-aware Policies, allowing organizations to query information from other systems to determine if changes in infrastructure are compliant with company policy. This feature extends the Sentinel policy as code functionality to allow policies to retrieve data from external APIs using HTTP/S. With this new feature, organizations can now check the current weather forecast or verify that other departments have approved a change in ServiceNow. The announcement also includes several examples of how customers can use Business-aware Policies, including confirming deployment windows, restricting allowed sets, authenticating requests, and configuring parameters. Additionally, HashiCorp has demonstrated creative uses for this feature, such as querying the NASA API to retrieve a list of Near Earth Objects. This new functionality opens up a wide range of possibilities for customers using Sentinel, enabling them to automate compliance checks and have confidence that changes are approved by the right teams.