Access provider attributes

[joshuaspence]

Is it possible to access output attributes for a provider? I have made an ec2_ondemand_price module which looks up the current EC2 on-demand price for a given region and instance type. We use this module to set our spot prices equal to the on demand price. The problem I have at the moment is that my ec2_ondemand_price module needs to know the AWS region, but it should be able to query this from the provider rather than needing to be passed in as a variable.

[joshuaspence]

An alternative to being able to access provider attributes would be an aws_region data source, I suppose.

[joshuaspence]

Given that we currently do this, #5480 would be another solution to my problem.

provider "aws" {
  region = "${var.region}"
}

[apparentlymart]

Hi @joshuaspence!

The patch I've been working on over in #6819 has a potential solution to this, which would work as follows:

data "aws_region" "current" {
  current = true
}

[joshuaspence]

Thanks for the pointer

[stack72]

Hi @joshuaspence

Does #6819 solve your issue?

Paul

[joshuaspence]

Yes, it does. Thanks!

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