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You can use the SDK provided by the appropriate cloud provider.

In addition to Paul's excellent suggestion, some resource types also have functions that are designed to return multiple matches, e.g.

aws.ec2.getSubnets()

. You could pass it criteria that should return exactly one if it matches.

Thank you. I am doing exactly that with getUserAssignedIdentityOutput. However I wanted to catch the error (when the resource doesn’t exist) but the function itself isn’t catchable. Was wondering if there was any other way to approach this?