diff --git a/backend/remote/backend.go b/backend/remote/backend.go
index c5684ad9d9..d29ea06caf 100644
--- a/backend/remote/backend.go
+++ b/backend/remote/backend.go
@@ -496,16 +496,16 @@ func (b *Remote) cancel(cancelCtx context.Context, op *backend.Operation, runID
 // Colorize returns the Colorize structure that can be used for colorizing
 // output. This is guaranteed to always return a non-nil value and so useful
 // as a helper to wrap any potentially colored strings.
-func (b *Remote) Colorize() *colorstring.Colorize {
-	if b.CLIColor != nil {
-		return b.CLIColor
-	}
-
-	return &colorstring.Colorize{
-		Colors:  colorstring.DefaultColors,
-		Disable: true,
-	}
-}
+// func (b *Remote) Colorize() *colorstring.Colorize {
+// 	if b.CLIColor != nil {
+// 		return b.CLIColor
+// 	}
+
+// 	return &colorstring.Colorize{
+// 		Colors:  colorstring.DefaultColors,
+// 		Disable: true,
+// 	}
+// }
 
 func generalError(msg string, err error) error {
 	if urlErr, ok := err.(*url.Error); ok {
diff --git a/backend/remote/colorize.go b/backend/remote/colorize.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..0f877c0077
--- /dev/null
+++ b/backend/remote/colorize.go
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+package remote
+
+import (
+	"regexp"
+
+	"github.com/mitchellh/colorstring"
+)
+
+// colorsRe is used to find ANSI escaped color codes.
+var colorsRe = regexp.MustCompile("\033\\[\\d{1,3}m")
+
+// Colorer is the interface that must be implemented to colorize strings.
+type Colorer interface {
+	Color(v string) string
+}
+
+// Colorize is used to print output when the -no-color flag is used. It will
+// strip all ANSI escaped color codes which are set while the operation was
+// executed in Terraform Enterprise.
+//
+// When Terraform Enterprise supports run specific variables, this code can be
+// removed as we can then pass the CLI flag to the backend and prevent the color
+// codes from being written to the output.
+type Colorize struct {
+	cliColor *colorstring.Colorize
+}
+
+// Color will strip all ANSI escaped color codes and return a uncolored string.
+func (c *Colorize) Color(v string) string {
+	return colorsRe.ReplaceAllString(c.cliColor.Color(v), "")
+}
+
+// Colorize returns the Colorize structure that can be used for colorizing
+// output. This is guaranteed to always return a non-nil value and so is useful
+// as a helper to wrap any potentially colored strings.
+func (b *Remote) Colorize() Colorer {
+	if b.CLIColor != nil && !b.CLIColor.Disable {
+		return b.CLIColor
+	}
+	if b.CLIColor != nil {
+		return &Colorize{cliColor: b.CLIColor}
+	}
+	return &Colorize{cliColor: &colorstring.Colorize{
+		Colors:  colorstring.DefaultColors,
+		Disable: true,
+	}}
+}