Don’t add account id to your Terraform code

I discovered a handy trick to get the account id of the given profile/account. The key is to use a new data source object and pass it the provider. See the code below.

provider "aws" {
  alias                     = "env_e1"
  profile                   = "seclab-sso"
  region                    = "us-east-1"
}

data "aws_caller_identity" "sec" {
  provider = aws.env_e1
}

output "sec-account-id" {
  value = data.aws_caller_identity.sec.account_id
}

So no need to ever put account ids in terraform code again? I’m good with that.

Happy building,

D