I’m a bit confused by this AWS “getter”:

// GetOpenIdConnectProvider gets an existing OpenIdConnectProvider resource's state with the given name, ID, and optional
// state properties that are used to uniquely qualify the lookup (nil if not required).
func GetOpenIdConnectProvider(ctx *pulumi.Context,
	name string, id pulumi.IDInput, state *OpenIdConnectProviderState, opts ...pulumi.ResourceOption) (*OpenIdConnectProvider, error) {
	var resource OpenIdConnectProvider
	err := ctx.ReadResource("aws:iam/openIdConnectProvider:OpenIdConnectProvider", name, id, state, &resource, opts...)
	if err != nil {
		return nil, err
	}
	return &resource, nil
}

If feels like the

state

argument is redundant… since this function requires the resource

id

which I’m assuming this would make this unique. What’s the point of the

state

arg?

No idea. It's the same share for all the getters. The ID is mandatory, so why have a state parameter to filter it down? The most it can do is reduce the number of results from 1 to 0...

well, what really sucks is that I’d like to filter, possibly within the id

Yes, the get function is intended to be "get one and only one".