The count question- I’m not sure if I fully understood the need, but if I can’t use count, then I’ll switch to a for_each and loop over a variable that has a map of all needed resources terraform_remote_state*-* We use terraform_remote_state quite a lot. it doesn’t make your code more complex. if you need data from a different state, and a regular data source is not helpful enough, then yeah- you can rely on terraform_remote_state. I would use it in the live side, and not modules, because if the remote state will change in a way that will break the module, it could have a bigger blast radius