Uhh, why would you ever use Terraform to do that? Its wild seeing people try and force Terraform to do things that the docs more or less YELL at you to not do.

Uhh, why would you ever use Terraform to do that? Its wild seeing people try and force Terraform to do things that the docs more or less YELL at you to not do. Secondly, I use TF and at least on AWS you use lifecycle hooks to do what you describe. If I saw someone using TF to do that,I would think they are incompetant.