RDS - error deleting, instance not found

[michalschott]

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Terraform Version

0.11.14 / probably not terraform related itself

Affected Resource(s)

• aws_db_instance

Terraform Configuration Files

resource "aws_db_instance" "postgres_nsg" {
...
snapshot_identifier = "${lookup(var.config_nsg, "snapshot_identifier", "")}"
deletion_protection = true
...
  lifecycle {
    create_before_destroy = true
  }
}

Expected Behavior

If instance does not exist, it should be removed from state. It looks like

* ErrCodeDBInstanceNotFoundFault "DBInstanceNotFound"
DBInstanceIdentifier doesn't refer to an existing DB instance.

is not handled at all, ref

Actual Behavior

	* aws_db_instance.postgres (destroy): 2 errors occurred:
	* aws_db_instance.postgres (deposed #1): 1 error occurred:
	* aws_db_instance.postgres (deposed #1): error deleting Database Instance "XXX": DBInstanceNotFound: DBInstance XXX not found.
	status code: 404, request id: 90c00e13-5a4a-40f6-a52f-d512c7e07035

Steps to Reproduce

1. apply RDS_instance with snapshot identifier
2. change source snapshot, deletion of old instance should fail
3. remove old instance using GUI/aws cli
4. run terraform apply, resource will be still as marked as deposed and TF will keep erroring.

[bflad]

The fix for this has been merged and will release with version 3.15.0 of the Terraform AWS Provider, later this week. 👍

[ghost]

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