datasource/aws_iam_policy: lookup by name

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Description

The aws_iam_policy datasource currently only takes arn as the search argument. It would be nice if name was also supported. See discussion in #1999 (comment) for adding name support.

New or Affected Resource(s)

• aws_iam_policy

Potential Terraform Configuration

data "aws_iam_policy" "policy" {
  name = "my-iam-policy"
}

References

• New Data Source: aws_iam_policy #1999
• aws_iam_policy as a data source #1346

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This has been released in version 3.38.0 of the Terraform AWS provider. Please see the Terraform documentation on provider versioning or reach out if you need any assistance upgrading.

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