[Bug]: aws_opensearchserverless_access_policy "Provider produced inconsistent result after apply"

[HunterLarco]

Terraform Core Version

1.0.0

AWS Provider Version

5.65.0

Affected Resource(s)

• aws_opensearchserverless_access_policy

Expected Behavior

We should be able to apply changes to the resource despite automatic user cleanup.

Actual Behavior

The resource can no longer be managed by terraform

Relevant Error/Panic Output Snippet

╷
│ Error: Provider produced inconsistent result after apply
│ 
│ When applying changes to module.dev.module.opensearch.aws_opensearchserverless_access_policy.data, provider
│ "module.dev.provider[\"registry.terraform.io/hashicorp/aws\"]" produced an unexpected new value: .policy: was
│ cty.StringVal("[...]"), but now null.
│ 
│ This is a bug in the provider, which should be reported in the provider's own issue tracker.

Terraform Configuration Files

resource "aws_opensearchserverless_access_policy" "data" {
  name        = "objects-data"
  type        = "data"
  description = "read and write permissions"
  policy = jsonencode([
    {   
      Rules = [ 
        {   
          ResourceType = "index",
          Resource = [ 
            "index/objects/*"
          ],  
          Permission = [ 
            "aoss:*"
          ]   
        },  
        {   
          ResourceType = "collection",
          Resource = [ 
            "collection/objects"
          ],  
          Permission = [ 
            "aoss:*"
          ]   
        }   
      ],  
      Principal = var.permissioned_arns
    }   
  ])  
}

Steps to Reproduce

the problem is with the permissioned arns (a list of user arns). If a user is deleted, AWS will automatically remove the user from opensearch's access policy outside of terraform's state management. Once this occurs the resource is in an unrecoverable state where there's a mismatch between terraform's state and the AWS state, resulting in "Provider produced inconsistent result after apply" errors

Debug Output

No response

Panic Output

No response

Important Factoids

We tried to fix this by

terraform state rm <resource>
terraform import <resource> objects-data/data
terraform apply -target <resource>

However this had no impact.

References

No response

Would you like to implement a fix?

None

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This functionality has been released in v5.68.0 of the Terraform AWS Provider. Please see the Terraform documentation on provider versioning or reach out if you need any assistance upgrading.

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