Terraform provider: aws

• https://registry.terraform.io/providers/hashicorp/aws/latest/docs

• profile
• shared_config_files
• shared_credentials_files

Configuration examples

 provider "aws" {
 profile = "your_profile_name"
}

provider "aws" {
 version = "~> 3.38.0"
 region = "us-east-1"
 profile = "your_profile_name"
}

provider "aws" {
  region     = var.region
  version    = ">= 0.13"
  assume_role {
    role_arn = "arn:aws:iam::01234567890:role/role_in_account_b"
  }
}

Including Tags:

 # Terraform 0.12 (2019) and later syntax
provider "aws" {
  # ... other configuration ...
  default_tags {
    tags = {
      Environment = "Production"
      Owner       = "Ops"
    }
  }
}

Installing

Installing hashicorp/aws v4.31.0
Installing hashicorp/aws v4.29.0...
Installing hashicorp/aws v4.28.0...
Installing hashicorp/aws v4.15.1...
Installing hashicorp/aws v3.63.0...

Resources

Terraform IAM resources

Networking:

• aws_vpc
• aws_subnet
• aws_internet_gateway
• aws_eip

CloudFront

• aws_cloudfront_distribution
• aws_cloudfront_origin_access_identity

Networking

• aws_lb
• aws_lb_target_group
• aws_lb_listener
• aws_lb_listener_rule

Computing:

• aws_instance
• aws_key_pair

• aws_db_instance

• aws_iam_role
• iam_role_policy

• aws_security_group
• aws_appautoscaling_target
• aws_appautoscaling_policy
• aws_ecs_service

RDS:

• aws_db_instance
• aws_rds_cluster_instance
• aws_rds_cluster
• aws_db_proxy

S3:

• aws_s3_bucket
• aws_s3_versioning
• aws_s3_bucket_inventory
• aws_s3_bucket_lifecycle_configuration
• aws_s3control_bucket_lifecycle_configuration

KMS

• aws kms key

CloudWatch

• aws_cloudwatch_metric_alarm
• aws_cloudwatch_log_group

WAF

• aws_wafv2_web_acl

Route53

• aws_route53_record
• aws_route53_zone

CodeBuild

• aws_codebuild_project
• aws_codebuild_source_credential

CodeDeploy

• aws_codedeploy_app

ECR

• aws_ecr_repository

Errors

• Error: Provider produced inconsistent final plan
• Error: error configuring Terraform AWS Provider: no valid credential sources for Terraform AWS Provider found.
• Error: configuring Terraform AWS Provider: failed to get shared config profile
• AWS Error: A Profile was specified along with the environment variables "AWS ACCESS KEY ID" and "AWS SECRET ACCESS KEY". The Profile is now used instead of the environment variable credentials.

Limitation

• aws account disable-region not implemented

Related terms

• Data sources: aws_caller_identity
• CloudFormation resource types: (Type:)
• Terraform S3 backend: backends.tf
• providers.tf
• Terraform provider: AWS
• AWS Control Tower Account Factory for Terraform (AFT)
• Terraform AWS data sources
• AWS_DEFAULT_REGION
• Terraform modules
• Terraform provider-level tagging
• required_version

Activities / Changelog

• Terraform AWS Provider Version 4 Upgrade Guide: https://registry.terraform.io/providers/hashicorp/aws/latest/docs/guides/version-4-upgrade
• Terraform AWS provider 4.0: https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/terraform-aws-provider-4-0-refactors-s3-bucket-resource

See also

• Terraform AWS: provider, resources, modules, data sources, VPC, IAM, Net, EC2, S3, Route53, ACM, CloudWatch, SES, RDS, ECS, awscc, autoscaling, EKS
• Terraform provider: AWS, Cloudflare, GoogleWorkspace, Kubernetes, Helm, .terraform/providers/, template, tfe, providers.tf, dns, hashicorp/, hashicorp/tls, Terraform provider versioning, Libvirt, datadog, terraform providers, required_version, onepassword, rancher2, time, terraform.tf
• Terraform resources, Terraform providers, Terraform provisioner, random_password, random_string, null_resource

https://registry.terraform.io/providers/hashicorp/aws/latest/docs/resources/vpc

https://registry.terraform.io/providers/hashicorp/aws/latest/docs/resources/appautoscaling_target

https://registry.terraform.io/providers/hashicorp/aws/latest/docs/resources/appautoscaling_policy

https://registry.terraform.io/search/providers?q=aws_ecs_service