New backend references resources from deleted backend with same name

[adam-nygate]

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App Id

d1dsr14iqx52pk

AWS Region

us-east-2

Amplify Hosting feature

Backend builds, Backend environments

Frontend framework

Vue

Next.js version

N/A

Next.js router

N/A

Describe the bug

The backend environment of a new environment references resources from a deleted backend with the same name.

Expected behavior

A new environment should not reference resources from a different environment, even an environment with the same name (that was deleted).

Reproduction steps

1. Create a new environment called main
2. Import an auth resource on this new environment (e.g auth1234abcd) and deploy it to the backend
3. Delete the environment entirely
4. Create another new environment with the same name (i.e main)
5. Import the same auth resource on this new environment but with a different name (e.g. auth1234efgh) and deploy it to the backend (this will succeed)
6. Make a change to the backend (e.g. add another resource) and let the automated builds deploy the change via the amplify-console.

See the logs for the failure details, I.e:

2023-07-21T18:34:30.250Z [INFO]: �[0mAmplify AppID found: xxx amplify App name is: xxx�[0m
2023-07-21T18:34:30.289Z [INFO]: �[0mBackend environment main found in Amplify Console app: xxx�[0m
2023-07-21T18:34:40.970Z [WARNING]: - Fetching updates to backend environment: main from the cloud.
2023-07-21T18:35:00.649Z [WARNING]: - Building resource api/xxx
2023-07-21T18:35:00.651Z [WARNING]: - Building resource auth/auth1234abcd
2023-07-21T18:35:00.698Z [WARNING]: ✔ Successfully pulled backend environment main from the cloud.
2023-07-21T18:35:01.419Z [WARNING]: ✖ There was an error initializing your environment.
2023-07-21T18:35:01.769Z [INFO]: 🛑 Could not initialize categories for 'main': The "path" argument must be of type string. Received undefined

^ note the auth resource being referenced is from the now non-existent environment.

Build Settings

backend:
  phases:
    build:
      commands:
        - envCache --set stackInfo ""
        - amplifyPush --simple

Log output

``` 2023-07-21T18:34:30.250Z [INFO]: �[0mAmplify AppID found: xxx amplify App name is: xxx�[0m 2023-07-21T18:34:30.289Z [INFO]: �[0mBackend environment main found in Amplify Console app: xxx�[0m 2023-07-21T18:34:40.970Z [WARNING]: - Fetching updates to backend environment: main from the cloud. 2023-07-21T18:35:00.649Z [WARNING]: - Building resource api/xxx 2023-07-21T18:35:00.651Z [WARNING]: - Building resource auth/auth1234abcd 2023-07-21T18:35:00.698Z [WARNING]: ✔ Successfully pulled backend environment main from the cloud. 2023-07-21T18:35:01.419Z [WARNING]: ✖ There was an error initializing your environment. 2023-07-21T18:35:01.769Z [INFO]: 🛑 Could not initialize categories for 'main': The "path" argument must be of type string. Received undefined ```

Additional information

I've tried instantiating the environment from local (i.e amplify add env && amplify push) and from amplify-console (setting up the branch and backend connection and then letting automated builds deploy the backend).

Initial deploys via the console work but subsequent deploys do not.
Local deploys always work (but don't meet our needs).

I've also verified that the envCache does not have references to the resources by accessing the pre-signed s3 object exposed in the builds env.

[Jay2113]

@adam-nygate 👋 , thanks for reaching out. Since the issue seems related to the amplify backend environment, I am going to transfer this to the amplify-cli repository for better assistance.

[ykethan]

Hey, wanted to get some additional information. how was the environment removed was this on the Amplify console or via amplify env remove main?

[adam-nygate]

It was removed by the Amplify console

[ykethan]

@adam-nygate thank you for the information. If the backend environment was deleted on console, we will need to remove the env references in the local Amplify cli by amplify env remove main.
But curious could you try adding the AMPLIFY_ENABLE_DEBUG_OUTPUT environment variable to Amplify console and re-attempt the build. Could you provide us the stack trace that gets printed.

[ykethan]

Closing the issue due to inactivity. Do reach out to us if you require any assistance.

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