[Bug]: Objects have changed outside of Terraform with tags and aws_iam_policy and aws_iam_role

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Terraform Core Version

1.3.7

AWS Provider Version

4.50.0

Affected Resource(s)

• aws_iam_policy
• aws_iam_role

Expected Behavior

Create and refresh without diffs

Actual Behavior

Detects false drift wanting to add + tags = {}

Relevant Error/Panic Output Snippet

No response

Terraform Configuration Files

resource "aws_iam_policy" "test" {
  name        = "test"
  description = "test"
}

Steps to Reproduce

1. terraform apply
2. terraform apply

Debug Output

Note: Objects have changed outside of Terraform

Terraform detected the following changes made outside of Terraform since the
last "terraform apply":

# aws_iam_policy.test has changed
  ~ resource "aws_iam_policy" "test" {
        id          = "redacted"
        name        = "test"
      + tags        = {}
        # (6 unchanged attributes hidden)
    }

Panic Output

No response

Important Factoids

No response

References

• Perpetual diffs / Objects have changed outside of Terraform (v3.70.0+) #23288 (comment) (@jhenry82)
• Perpetual diffs / Objects have changed outside of Terraform (v3.70.0+) #23288 (comment) (@nestorcolt)

Would you like to implement a fix?

None

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This functionality has been released in v4.50.0 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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