remote state

gistfile1.txt

    "remote": {
        "type": "s3",
        "config": {
            "bucket": "s3-bucket",
            "key": "/path/to/terraform.tfstate",
            "region": "us-east-1"
        }
    },

When converting to a remote state file, continually kept getting the following error:

Error loading Terraform: Remote state cache has no remote info

While I'm sure there is a more appropriate way of resolving this issue, my solution was to add the above snippet, with correct values, to the state file itself. In my state, this fell right after the "lineage" entry.