Terraform support three (3) distinct syntax for adding comments.
# – Single line comment
# begins a single-line comment, and comments everything that follows on the same line.
// – Alternate single line comment
The same as a # but added as an alternative. Often more familiar to most programmers in other languages. Purely a preference for some.
Also note that many popular formatting tools will replace // with # when found.
/* and */ – Multi line comments
/* starts a multi-line comment and ends when a */ is found further down the script.