AWS ACM certificate does not enable Create before Destroy

Description

It is recommended to enable create_before_destroy argument inside the resource lifecycle configuration block to avoid a possible outage when the certificate needs to be recreated during an update.

Code Example

resource "aws_acm_certificate" "example" {
  domain_name       = "example.com"
  validation_method = "DNS"

+ lifecycle {
+   create_before_destroy = true
+ }
}

Remediation

CloudFormation

CloudFormation creates a new certificate first and then will delete the old one automatically.

Terraform

Rule Details

Field	Value
ID	IAC-0281
Severity	LOW
IaC Type	Terraform
Frameworks	Terraform
Checkov ID	CKV_AWS_233

References

• Checkov Rule

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