AWS s3 subfolders creation

[sushant kode]

Hi All,

We have a requirement to create  a particular set of folders and subfolders in a s3 bucket. Bucket will be having a folder with env name (eg. level 1-> dev). Now dev will have 3 subfolders (eg. level 2-> incoming, outgoing, error). Now each of the subfolder will be 2 more subfolders(eg. level 3-> orange, black). 

the folder structure:

dev/

dev/incoming

dev/outgoing

dev/error

dev/incoming/orange

dev/incoming/black

dev/ outgoing /orange

dev/ outgoing /black

dev/ error /orange

dev/ error /black

There is possibility of having level 4 subfolder structure. Is there a way in terraform to create these folders and subfolders keeping the code generic, so that it can be used for other buckets across environments. 

Thanks in Advance. 

[Fernando 🐼]

Object storage, like aws s3, does not have a concept of folders. 

Every object has a key, and that key is the path to it. 

Folders, directories, etc, do not represent keys and as such don't really exist. 

Object storage is not a file system! 

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Fernando 🐼

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[Sam Flint]

You can specify any bucket path when writing to it.   No need to create them ahead of time with terraform.

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