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Metadata refers to built-in meta-arguments supported by Terraform and can be used in the provider, resource, and data blocks. This section describes the meta-arguments supported by the resource block, including:

depends_on: specifies the dependencies of a resource.
count: creates multiple resources with the same configuration.
for_each: creates multiple resources based on mappings and string sets.
lifecycle: customizes the lifecycle of a resource.

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