Question

A teammate manually renamed an S3 bucket in the AWS console, breaking the mapping in your Terraform state. The next terraform plan proposes to destroy the old bucket (which no longer exists) and create a new one. You want to keep the current live bucket under Terraform management without destroying it, and without changing its resource address in the configuration. Which approach accomplishes this?

Accepted Answer

Run terraform state rm to remove the stale entry, then terraform import to bind the existing live bucket to the same resource address.

Answer

Run terraform apply to let Terraform destroy the missing bucket and recreate a matching one from configuration.

Answer

Run terraform state mv to rename the resource address to match the new bucket name.

Answer

Run terraform refresh so Terraform automatically discovers and re-adopts the renamed bucket.