diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
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+# Versions
+
+* v1.0.0 -- {{ yyyy-mm-dd }}
+  - initial creation
+
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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diff --git a/availabilty_zones.tf b/availabilty_zones.tf
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+data "aws_availability_zones" "zones" {
+  state = "available"
+}
+
+data "aws_availability_zone" "zone" {
+  for_each = toset(data.aws_availability_zones.zones.names)
+  state    = "available"
+  name     = each.key
+}
+
+
+output "availability_zone_names" {
+  description = "VPC Availability zone name list"
+  value       = data.aws_availability_zones.zones.names
+}
+
+output "availability_zone_ids" {
+  description = "VPC Availability zone id list"
+  value       = data.aws_availability_zones.zones.zone_ids
+}
+
+output "availability_zone_suffixes" {
+  description = "VPC Availability zone suffix list"
+  value       = [for k, v in data.aws_availability_zone.zone : v.name_suffix]
+}
diff --git a/data.tf b/data.tf
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+data "aws_caller_identity" "current" {}
+
+data "aws_arn" "current" {
+  arn = data.aws_caller_identity.current.arn
+}
+
+data "aws_region" "current" {}
diff --git a/examples/README.md b/examples/README.md
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+# Examples
+
+Create directories with specific examples and describe how to use the module in a variety of ways.
diff --git a/locals.tf.initial b/locals.tf.initial
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+locals {
+  account_id          = var.account_id != "" ? var.account_id : data.aws_caller_identity.current.account_id
+  account_environment = data.aws_arn.current.partition == "aws-us-gov" ? "gov" : "ew"
+
+  base_tags = {
+    "boc:tf_module_version" = local._module_version
+    "boc:created_by"        = "terraform"
+  }
+}
diff --git a/prefixes.tf b/prefixes.tf
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+locals {
+  _prefixes = {
+    "efs"            = "v-efs-"
+    "s3"             = "v-s3-"
+    "ebs"            = "v-ebs-"
+    "kms"            = "k-kms-"
+    "role"           = "r-"
+    "policy"         = "p-"
+    "group"          = "g-"
+    "security-group" = "" # "sg-"
+    # VPC
+    "vpc"              = ""
+    "dhcp-options"     = ""
+    "vpc-peer"         = "vpcp-"
+    "route-table"      = "route-"
+    "subnet"           = ""
+    "vpc-endpoint"     = "vpce-"
+    "elastic-ip"       = "eip-"
+    "nat-gateway"      = "nat-"
+    "internet-gateway" = "igw-"
+    "network-acl"      = "nacl-"
+    "customer-gateway" = "cgw-"
+    "vpn-gateway"      = "vpcg-"
+    "vpn-connection"   = "vpn_"
+    "log-group"        = "lg-"
+    "log-stream"       = "lgs-"
+  }
+}
diff --git a/variables.common.availability_zones.tf b/variables.common.availability_zones.tf
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+variable "availability_zones" {
+  description = "AWS Availability Zones to use (by default will use all available)"
+  type        = list(string)
+  default     = []
+}
diff --git a/variables.common.tf b/variables.common.tf
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+#---
+# account info
+#---
+variable "account_id" {
+  description = "AWS Account ID (default will pull from current user)"
+  type        = string
+  default     = ""
+}
+
+variable "account_alias" {
+  description = "AWS Account Alias"
+  type        = string
+  default     = ""
+}
+
+variable "override_prefixes" {
+  description = "Override built-in prefixes by component. This should be used primarily for common infrastructure things"
+  type        = map(string)
+  default     = {}
+}
+
+variable "tags" {
+  description = "AWS Tags to apply to appropriate resources"
+  type        = map(string)
+  default     = {}
+}
diff --git a/version.tf b/version.tf
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+locals {
+  _module_version = "0.0.0"
+}
diff --git a/versions.tf b/versions.tf
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+terraform {
+  required_providers {
+    aws = {
+      source  = "hashicorp/aws"
+      version = ">= 3.66.0"
+    }
+  }
+#  required_version = ">= 0.13"
+}