[jtimdwyer]

I think the previous post is saying a resource removed from a configuration file rather than an invocation explicitly deleting the resource in a command line. Of course if it’s removed from the config file, presumably the lifecycle configuration was as well!

[glenngillen]

Yeah, that's a legit challenge that it would be great if there was a better built-in solution for (I'm fairly sure you can protect against it with policy as code via Sentinel or OPA, but now you're having to maintain a list of protected resources too).

That said the failure mode is also a bit more than "a badly reviewed PR". It's:

* reviewing and approving a PR that is removing a resource * approving a run that explicitly states how many resources are going to be destroyed, and lists them * (or having your runs auto approve)

I've long theorised the actual problem here is that in 99% of cases everything is fine, and so people develop a form of review fatigue and muscle memory for approving things without actually reviewing them critically.