names

Package names provides AWS service-name information that is critical to the Terraform AWS Provider working correctly. If you are unsure about a change you are making, please do not hesitate to ask!

NOTE: The information in data/names_data.hcl affects the provider, generators, documentation, website navigation, etc. working correctly. Please do not make any changes until you understand the table below.

The core of the names package is data/names_data.hcl, which contains HCL data about naming in the AWS Provider, AWS Go SDKs v1 and v2, and AWS CLI. The file is dynamically embedded at build time in the AWS Provider and referenced by generators when generating code. The information it contains must be correct. Please double-check any changes.

Consumers of names include:

• Package provider (internal/provider)
• Package conns (internal/conns)
• AWS Provider generators
• skaff tool

After any edits to data/names_data.hcl, run make gen. Doing so regenerates code and performs checks on data/names_data.hcl.

The schema of the attributes and blocks of data/names_data.hcl are as follows:

service "" {

  // If both of these attributes are the same as the service block's name, this block will be ommitted
  cli_v2_command { 
    aws_cli_v2_command           = ""
    aws_cli_v2_command_no_dashes = ""
  }

  // If both of these attributes are the same as the service block's name, this block will be ommitted
  go_packages { 
    v1_package = ""
    v2_package = ""
  } 

  // If any blocks below here have attirbutes with empty strings or false bools, they will be ommitted
  // Blocks with zero attributes will be ommitted 
  sdk {
    id             = "" 
    client_version = [] 
  }

  names {
    aliases             = [""] // This can also be excluded if it is empty
    provider_name_upper = ""
    human_friendly      = ""
  }

  client {
    go_v1_client_typename = ""
    skip_client_generate  = bool
  }

  env_var {
    deprecated_env_var = ""
    tf_aws_env_var     = ""
  }

  endpoint_info {
    endpoint_api_call        = ""
    endpoint_api_params      = ""
    endpoint_region_override = ""
    endpoint_only            = bool
  }

  resource_prefix {
    actual  = ""
    correct = ""
  }

  provider_package_correct = ""
  split_package       = ""
  file_prefix         = ""
  doc_prefix          = [""]
  brand               = ""
  exclude             = bool
  not_implemented     = bool
  allowed_subcategory = bool
  note                = ""
}

The explanation of the attributes of data/names_data.hcl are as follows:

Name	Use	Description
ProviderPackageActual	Code	Actual TF AWS provide package name if provider_package_correct is not used; takes precedence over provider_package_correct for service block name if both are defined
aws_cli_v2_command	Reference	Service command in AWS CLI v2
aws_cli_v2_command_no_dashes	Reference	Same as aws_cli_v2_command without dashes
v1_package	Code	AWS SDK for Go v1 package name
v2_package	Code	AWS SDK for Go v2 package name
id	Code	Represents the ServiceID of a AWS service which is a unique identifier of a specific service
client_version	Code	HCL int list containing if in the TF AWS Provider, the service currently uses AWS SDK for Go v1 and/or v2; each integer represents the correlating version
aliases	Code	HCL string list of name variations (e.g., for "AMP", prometheus,prometheusservice). Do not include **ProviderPackageActual (or provider_package_correct, if blank) since that will create duplicates in the Custom Endpoints guide.
provider_name_upper	Code	Correctly capitalized ProviderPackageActual, if it exists, otherwise provider_package_correct
human_friendly	Code	[REQUIRED] Human-friendly name of service as used by AWS; documentation subcategory must exactly match this value; used in website navigation and error messages
go_v1_client_typename	Code	Exact name (i.e., spelling and capitalization) of the AWS SDK for Go v1 client type (e.g., see the New() return type for SES). Also excluded when service only supports AWS SDK for Go v2
skip_client_generate	Code	Some service clients need special configuration rather than the default generated configuration; use a non-empty value to skip generation but you must then manually configure the client in internal/conns/config.go
deprecated_env_var	Code	Deprecated AWS_<service>_ENDPOINT envvar defined for some services
tf_aws_env_var	Code	TF_AWS_<service>_ENDPOINT envvar defined for some services
endpoint_api_call	Code	Command for the AWS cli for describing the current service
endpoint_api_params	Code	Used in service_endpoints_gen_test.go files for API calls that require a configured value
endpoint_region_override	Code	Specified alternate regional endpoint for API requests
endpoint_only	Code	Bool based on if not_implemented is non-blank, whether the service endpoint should be included in the provider endpoints configuration
resource_prefix_actual	Code	Regular expression to match anomalous TF resource name prefixes (e.g., for the resource name aws_config_config_rule, aws_config_ will match all resources); only use if resource_prefix_correct is not suitable (e.g., aws_codepipeline_ won't work as there is only one resource named aws_codepipeline); takes precedence over resource_prefix_correct
resource_prefix_correct	Code	Regular expression to match what resource name prefixes should be (i.e., aws_ + provider_package_correct + _); used if resource_prefix_actual is blank
provider_package_correct	Code	Shorter of aws_cli_v2_command_no_dashes and v2_package; should not be blank if either exists; same as Service Identifier; what the TF AWS Provider package name should be; ProviderPackageActual takes precedence
split_package_real_package	Code	If multiple "services" live in one service, this is the package where the service's Go files live (e.g., VPC is part of EC2)
file_prefix	Code	If multiple "services" live in one service, this is the prefix that files must have to be associated with this sub-service (e.g., VPC files in the EC2 service are prefixed with vpc_); see also split_packages_real_packages
doc_prefix	Code	Hcl string list of prefixes for service documentation files in website/docs/r and website/docs/d; usually only one prefix, i.e., <provider_package_correct>_
brand	Code	Either Amazon, AWS, or blank (rare) as used by AWS; used in error messages
exclude	Code	Bool based on whether the service should be included; if included (blank), ProviderPackageActual or provider_package_correct must have a value
allowed_subcategory	Code	Bool based on if Exclude is non-blank, whether to include human_friendly in website/allowed-subcategories.txt anyway. In other words, if non-blank, overrides exclude in some situations. Some excluded pseudo-services (e.g., VPC is part of EC2) are still subcategories. Only applies if Exclude is non-blank.
not_implemented	Code	Bool based on whether the service is implemented by the provider
note	Reference	Very brief note usually to explain why excluded

For more information about service naming, see the Naming Guide.