Ensure AWS API gateway enables 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 API Gateway needs to be recreated during an update.

Code Example

resource "aws_api_gateway_rest_api" "example" {
  name = "example"

+ lifecycle {
+   create_before_destroy = true
+ }
}

Remediation

CloudFormation

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

Terraform

Rule Details

Field	Value
ID	IAC-0285
Severity	LOW
IaC Type	Terraform
Frameworks	Terraform
Checkov ID	CKV_AWS_237

References

• Checkov Rule

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