Using Terraform, I’m trying to provision a Cloudfront distribution in my region (eu-west-1), using an existing, issued & valid certificate from ACM (us-east-1).

I’ve added a new provider for us-east-1 as follows:

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

And then added that provider reference to the data source, as follows:

data "aws_acm_certificate" "issued" {
  provider    = aws.virginia
  domain      = "*.example.com"
  key_types   = ["RSA_2048"]
  types       = ["AMAZON_ISSUED"]
  statuses    = ["ISSUED"]
  most_recent = true
}

when I run my terraform plan I get the following error:

Error: no certificate for domain "*.example.com" found in this Region

Does anyone have any ideas?