I would like to import and s3 bucket from a different aws account. Currently, I’ve configured all of our AWS accounts with infrastructure that adheres to the CIS foundations benchmark. One of the resources resource "aws_cloudtrail" "nfcisbenchmark" { count = var.environment == "billing" ? 1 : 0 …

I ended up just dropping the resource, but I would like to know if anyone knows how to do this.

[aws_s3_bucket.nfcisbenchmark_cloudtrail]

That’s in the depends_on yes?

depends_on is used to give Terraform extra information about the dependency graph. In general it isn’t needed (and using it when not needed can actually cause issues). So unless there is a specific need you usually wouln’t use it at all. What are you hoping using it here would do?

The point is to replace the variable referenced in the code.

I mean why is the depends_on there at all?

Import s3 bucket from different account

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stuart-c December 14, 2021, 1:53pm 3

I’m not quite sure what you are wanting. Are you talking about the reference to a S3 bucket resource in the depends_on?

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