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?
As discussed in the comments, this behaviour can be achieved with the bucket_prefix functionality
This code:
resource "aws_s3_bucket" "my_s3_bucket" {
bucket_prefix = "my-stackoverflow-bucket-"
acl = "private"
tags = {
Name = "My bucket"
Environment = "Dev"
}
}
Produces the following unique bucket:
