Terraform AWS data sources

There is more that 300 AWS data sources .

AWS data sources

• aws_caller_identity: data "aws_caller_identity" "current" {}
• aws_availability_zones
• aws_ami
• aws_iam_policy_document
• aws_vpc
• aws_region: data "aws_region" "current" {}
• aws_subnet
• aws_subnet_ids
• aws_subnets
• aws_s3_bucket
• aws_ebs_snapshot

Examples

https://registry.terraform.io/providers/hashicorp/aws/latest/docs/data-sources/ami

data "aws_ami" "myexample" {
  most_recent = true

  owners = ["self"]
  tags = {
    Name   = "app-server"
    Tested = "true"
  }
}

https://registry.terraform.io/providers/hashicorp/aws/latest/docs/data-sources/vpc

data "aws_vpc" "selected" {
  id = var.my_vpc_id
}

data "template_file" "my-secret" {
  template = aws_iam_access_key.my_new_user.encrypted_secret
}

Related terms

• data, data.
• Terraform: Data sources: template_file
• Terraform AWS provider

See also

• AWS Data sources: aws_region, aws_vpc, aws_caller_identity, aws_availability_zones, aws_eip, aws_flow_log, template_file, aws_ami
• Terraform AWS resources: IAM, Net, EC2, ECS, ECR, S3, Route53, ACM, CloudWatch, CloudFront SES, RDS, DLM

https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/terraform-aws-provider-4-0-refactors-s3-bucket-resource