We have already created some infrastructure manually and with terraform, including some s3 buckets. In the future I would like to use pure CloudFormation to define the infrastructure as code.
So I created a CloudFormation yaml definition which references an existing bucket:
AWSTemplateFormatVersion: '2010-09-09'
Resources:
TheBucket:
Type: AWS::S3::Bucket
Properties:
BucketName: my-existing-bucket-name
When I try to apply it, execution fails, with CloudFormation stack event:
The following resource(s) failed to update: [TheBucket].
12:33:47 UTC+0200 UPDATE_FAILED AWS::S3::Bucket TheBucket
my-existing-bucket-name already exists
How can I start managing existing resources with CloudFormation without recreating them? Or is it impossible by design?
