How to add new resources

[rburchill]

Great tool, by far the best out the several I've used.

I'd like to add some more resources, starting with aws_athena_named_query but possibly more in the future.

Is this guide still relevant, #21? It seems like you're working on a way to auto-generate the code. Would it be better to wait?

Thanks,

[jckuester]

Hi @rburchill 👋

Great tool, by far the best out the several I've used.

Thanks you :-) As a little feedback, can you tell me what you like most about awsweeper in comparison to others?

Is this guide still relevant, #21?

I think it's time to close this issue; you are right, listing resources is (mostly) auto-generated with this generator and the Terraform AWS Provider handles the deletion part.

I just checked why the generator doesn't support aws_athena_named_query resources yet. The reason is that listing aws_athena_named_query resources depends on a given name of a aws_athena_workgroup resource. Resources that require input of another resource (anoher example: aws_s3_bucket_object depends on a given aws_s3_bucket name) are not yet supported; mainly, because I need to think of how this should look like from the user experience point of view. If you have any suggestions...

[rburchill]

can you tell me what you like most about awsweeper in comparison to others?

Sure, off the top of my head:

• Supports a lot of resources
• Uses terraform under the hood (I've used it before and really trust it)
• Excluding resources by resource name/id is simple to configure
• When I excluded an iam_user it also excluded it's IAM policy attachments, which is what I wanted (suggests implementation is well thought out)

So to describe my need a little, I do work in an AWS account for a week or two, and after that, I want to reset the account into a clean, pristine state. So in the Athena case, I'd be happy with a nuke from orbit remove all resources approach walking up the tree to delete all parent resources (unless explicitly excluded). This may not be what other users would want though...

[jckuester]

Thanks for your feedback, @rburchill. Very helpful to me. I definitely will think about and then work on an approach to handle resources that depend on other resources as one of the next features. I'll let you know what I come up with and probably will ask for your feedback again during that process.

[ddvdozuki]

Yea, this would be a killer feature, a "roll up" of all dependencies like the AWS Console does for VPC's and other resources.