[Enhancement]: aws_ebs_snapshot data source should return StartTime

[mss]

Description

The describe-snapshot API returns a field StartTime.

According to the documentation it isn't exposed by the aws_ebs_snapshot data source.

Affected Resource(s) and/or Data Source(s)

• aws_ebs_snapshot

Potential Terraform Configuration

data "aws_ebs_snapshot" "this" {
  snapshot_id = var.snapshot_id
}

resource "aws_ebs_volume" "this" {
  snapshot_id = data.aws_ebs_snapshot.this.snapshot_id
  ...

  tags = {
    Comment = format("Created from snapshot with timestamp %s", data.aws_ebs_snapshot.this.start_time)
  }
}

References

• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/ec2/describe-snapshots.html#output

Would you like to implement a fix?

None

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[stefanfreitag]

Hi @mss,

thanks for raising the issue.
Let me have a look into this!

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