Hello I have a question about the snapshot identifier proper

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Hello I have a question about the snapshot identifier property of aws rds Instance I ve just created a cluster from a snapshot by populating snapshot identifier resource when creating the cluster Do I need to keep the snapshot identifier populated with the snapshot s name and therefore the snapshot itself for subsequent changes to the cluster What happens if the snapshot identifier resource is blanked snapshot identifier= for subsequent changes to the cluster

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That s an AWS question rather than a Pulumi specific question The snapshot identifier corresponds to the same field in the RDS console or the APIs It is used when creating or restoring a snapshot as opposed to when deploying via Pulumi Any time you trigger either of those actions that field is used by RDS not Pulumi

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If you update that field via Pulumi nothing special will happen in RDS other than the field will be blanked However you won t be able to create or restore a snapshot until you put a value in there

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Generally you should not change the value of that field once an instance is created RDS looks after versioning if you create 10 snapshots they don t overwrite each other the identifier is used as a prefix

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If you do change the value of the field then existing snapshots with the old identifier can t be restored into the instance until you change it back