Security-First Evaluation of Text-To-Terraform: Benchmarking LLMs and SLMs for Secure IaC Generation

Cloud misconfiguration remains a leading cause of security incidents, yet whether LLMs and SLMs can generate security-compliant Infrastructure-as-Code is an open question. We benchmark seven models, three closed LLMs Claude Opus 4, GPT-5.4, Gemini 2.5 Pro and four open SLMs Qwen2.5-Coder-14B,...