This (partly) solves some cases of the two generals problems, where you didn't receive a response to eg. a resource creation request but aren't sure whether tha

This (partly) solves some cases of the two generals problems, where you didn't receive a response to eg. a resource creation request but aren't sure whether that means that you can safely retry it, or need to use other APIs to figure out the ID of the created resource, if it exists Some AWS APIs have it, eg https://docs.aws.amazon.com/medialive/latest/apireference/inputs.html#inputs-prop-createinput-requestid https://docs.aws.amazon.com/medialive/latest/apireference/in... - I wish all their creation APIs did