Yeah, certainly <i>could</i> but.. Treating AWS resources as &quot;custom&quot; resources to hack around their long complained about CloudFormation turnaround? Ugh.. Then I have to reason about how to extract that custom resource out and replace it with the RightWay™ once it&#x27;s added, which may just not even be possible... If it came to that I would rather throw in my efforts with the Terraform community(which I want to do anyway) who have already added this functionality it seems <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;hashicorp&#x2F;terraform&#x2F;pull&#x2F;4381" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;hashicorp&#x2F;terraform&#x2F;pull&#x2F;4381</a> .