Why Severity Classification Changes Everything About Drift Detection

Here's a scenario every DevOps engineer has lived through at least once. You set up drift detection for your Terraform infrastructure. Maybe it's a cron job running terraform plan , maybe it's a fancier tool. Either way, it works. It finds drift. It sends alerts. The problem is it finds everything . Tag changes. Description updates. Auto-scaling group adjustments. Security group modifications. Instance type changes. All of it lands in the same Slack channel with the same urgency. For the first w