I know the data aws_s3_bucket
resource can be used to get a reference to an existing bucket, but how would it be used to ensure that a new potential bucket name is unique?
I'm thinking a loop using random numbers, but how can that be used to search for a bucket name which has not been used?
Another solution by using bucket
instead of bucket_prefix
and random_uuid
, for example:
resource "aws_s3_bucket" "my_s3_bucket" {
bucket = "my-s3-bucket-${random_uuid.uuid.result}"
}
resource "random_uuid" "uuid" {}
This will give you a name like this:
my-s3-bucket-ebb92011-3cd9-503f-0977-7371102405f5