Terraform AWS Tutorial After a whole day of banging at it, I found a tutorial from Terraform that worked. I think etags are the key.

Again, I believe the key is file structure and how you organize your code to make it intuitive. The following list of terraform files and they implied structure is what I used to get it working:

1. terraform.tf : declare terraform here, along with version, required providers.
2. variables.tf : declare your variables here, along with their types and defaults.
3. main.tf : declare your resources here, along with their types and properties.
4. outputs.tf : declare your console outputs here, along with their types and values.