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Re:Please fix the AWS free tier before somebody gets hurt by nrmitchi on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @09:49AM (#27049755)
Terraform has it's shortcomings for sure, but I don't think it's reasonable to expect Terraform to go out and clean up second-order effects of it's resources.

I'm not doubting that the situations you describe are true, but abandoning resources like that is an AWS-lifecycle problem, not really a Terraform one.

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Re:Please fix the AWS free tier before somebody gets hurt by thayne on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @11:52AM (#27051490)
Sure. My point is just that `terraform destroy` doesn't necessarily solve the problem at hand. And you could still end up continue paying for those second-order effects after running a terraform destroy.
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