Unresolvable "Empty provider configuration blocks are not required" warnings from "terraform validate"

[dav3r]

🐛 Summary

While not present in this skeleton Terraform module, some descendant modules get terraform validate warnings about "Empty provider configuration blocks are not required". This started happening after we moved from Terraform 0.14.x to Terraform 1.0.x.

See hashicorp/terraform#28490 for more information about why this is happening and why we cannot do anything to fix it right now.

Any helpful log output or screenshots

This is an example of the terraform validate warning that comes up for cisagov/cool-assessment-terraform:

│ Warning: Empty provider configuration blocks are not required
│ 
│   on .terraform/modules/read_terraform_state/providers.tf line 2:
│    2: provider "aws" {
│ 
│ Remove the aws.users provider block from module.read_terraform_state. Add aws.users to the list of configuration_aliases for aws in required_providers to define the provider
│ configuration name.