Error: error creating Storage gateway SMB file Share: InvalidGatewayRequestExeption

Question

I tried to run following terraform code o create test smb share but got error

see code

provider "aws" {
  region = "us-east-1"
}

resource "aws_storagegateway_smb_file_share" "test_smb_share" {
  authentication        = "ActiveDirectory"
  gateway_arn           = "arn:aws:storagegateway:us-east-1:145429107744:gateway/sgw-4xxxxxxx"
  default_storage_class = "S3_STANDARD"
  location_arn          = "arn:aws:s3:::xxxxxxxx"
  role_arn              = "arn:aws:iam::145429107744:role/service-role/StorageGatewayBucketAccessRolee896cdf0-cb46-4471-a0de-119f69f87e"
  valid_user_list       = ["@Domain Admins","@Admins"]
  kms_encrypted         = "true"
  kms_key_arn           = "arn:aws:kms:us-east-1:145429107744:key/8c4b962b-c00a-4a32-8fbd-76b174efb609"
  tags = {
                atomdev     =   "prod"
                atomdomain  =   "xxxxxx"
                atomos      =   "file system"
                atompid     =   "32"
                atomrole    =   "storage"
  }
}

aws_storagegateway_smb_file_share.test_smb_share: Creating... ╷ │ Error: error creating Storage Gateway SMB File Share: InvalidGatewayRequestException: OverlappingLocations │ { │ RespMetadata: { │ StatusCode: 400, │ RequestID: "e8f7466d-23af-4a4c-a457-d39a0f99406d" │ }, │ Error_: { │ ErrorCode: "OverlappingLocations" │ }, │ Message_: "OverlappingLocations" │ } │ │ with aws_storagegateway_smb_file_share.test_smb_share, │ on main.tf line 5, in resource "aws_storagegateway_smb_file_share" "test_smb_share": │ 5: resource "aws_storagegateway_smb_file_share" "test_smb_share" { │

any idea?

Answer 1

If you try to run two shares on the same SGW that have overlapping S3 locations, you'll get this error. For example:

\\my-s3-bucket\folder1\data
\\my-s3-bucket\folder1

^ those would overlap, since one would contain a subset of the other