Upgrade AWS driver from v3 to v4

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we are trying to get some guidance on how to upgrade as well.

Something that is pretty clear to me is that you should:

  • upgrade your provider to the latest 3.x, which is 3.75.1. It is backward and forward compatible, which is really important.
  • address all the warnings by updating your files to the new syntax (very manual and time consuming if you have lots of resources).
  • run the import commands, unfortunately there is nothing to automate this AFAIK.
  • once all your warnings have been addressed, then you can, and should, upgrade to 4.x

For automating the imports I have opened a separate topic yesterday:

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