The AWS Go SDK automatically provides a default request retryer with exponential backoff that is invoked via setting `MaxRetries` or leaving it `nil` will default to 3. The terraform-aws-provider `config.Client()` sets `MaxRetries` to 0 unless explicitly configured above 0. Previously, we were not overriding this behavior by setting the configuration and therefore not invoking the default request retryer.
The default retryer already handles HTTP error codes above 500, including S3's InternalError response, so the extraneous handling can be removed. This will also start automatically retrying many additional cases, such as temporary networking issues or other retryable AWS service responses.
Changes:
* s3/backend: Add `max_retries` argument
* s3/backend: Enhance S3 NoSuchBucket error to include additional information
This change enables a few related use cases:
* AWS has partitions outside Commercial, GovCloud (US), and China, which are the only endpoints automatically handled by the AWS Go SDK. DynamoDB locking and credential verification can not currently be enabled in those regions.
* Allows usage of any DynamoDB-compatible API for state locking
* Allows usage of any IAM/STS-compatible API for credential verification
S3 accepts objects with a leading slash and strips them off. This works
fine except in our workspace hierarchy, which then can no longer find
suffixes matching the full key name.
Since the DynamoDB table used by the S3 backend is no longer only used
for locks, rename it in the config to remove any confusion about it
being lock-specific.
Use the aws provider code to create the clients for the s3 backend, so
that all the behavior matches that of the provider.
Remove the fake creds from the test, as the aws provider will attempt to
validate them.
Move the S3 State from a legacy remote state to an official backend.
This increases test coverage, uses a set schema for configuration, and
will allow new backend features to be implemented for the S3 state, e.g.
"environments".
Brian Flad