[throwaway823882]

It's funny you mention this. Removing resources from AWS is the one thing that reliably breaks in Terraform all the time.

If you have never tried to destroy all your Terraform resources before, it will probably not work. You'll have to modify your Terraform to get it to jump through the correct hoops in the correct order in order to destroy without dying.

At this very moment I am fighting with Terraform to destroy some resources as part of a code change. AWS wants them destroyed in a very particular way, and Terraform won't create the resources I do want because apply is dying because the destroy is failing.