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Why are my resources tainted?

Why are my resources tainted?

When you view your resource list, there are resources with a tainted status.

A resource that you deployed is marked as tainted.

Terraform marks a resource that isn't fully functional as tainted. This might be due to a provisioning error, or because Terraform is unable to determine if the resources were successfully or partially created.

Terraform will delete and re-create the resource at the start of the next deployment. You can manually remove the taint status by deleting the resource and re-creating it.

For more information, see Managing resources with Schematics.