Retaining resources after terraform destroy

Question

I'd like to retain CloudWatch logs after I spin down a bunch of resources created using terraform - which includes the CloudWatch log group. Is there a way to tell terraform destroy to spare some resources?

I suppose I could manually remove CloudWatch resources from tfstate before calling destroy, doesn't seem like the right approach.

user_4523141 · Answer

There is a meta-argument called lifecycle for that.

resource "aws_s3_bucket" "MyPreciousBucket" {
  lifecycle {
    prevent_destroy = true
  }
}

Retaining resources after terraform destroy

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