Importing AWS resources into Terraform

What if you already have resources running in your AWS accounts? How can you manage those without starting from scratch?

Or, as another scenario, it's entirely possible that at some point you'll come across resources created outside of Terraform even if you are actively using it. Maybe your company hasn't yet standardized on building with Terraform, and someone on the team didn't want to spend the time writing the code, so they manually deployed it.

Regardless of the situation, if you come across a resource and want to manage it with IaC, it's possible to import existing resources and manage them with Terraform going forward.

In this lab, we'll cover the two approaches we can use to import resources.