The new AMI is Building But Not Visible Using describe-images. Any ideas?

[David Medinets]

I am using the following JSON file to build an AMI which should be a copy of the Amazon Linux 2 AMI. The messages say the new AMI is built but it is not found when using describe-images - even five minutes later. I am passing the AWS credentials using the AWS_PROFILE env variable.

The process seems dead simple. What am I doing wrong?

-- example.json --

{

  "variables": {

    "aws_access_key": "",

    "aws_secret_key": ""

  },

  "builders": [{

    "type": "amazon-ebs",

    "access_key": "{{user `aws_access_key`}}",

    "secret_key": "{{user `aws_secret_key`}}",

    "region": "us-east-1",

    "source_ami": "ami-0b898040803850657",

    "instance_type": "t2.micro",

    "ssh_username": "ec2-user",

    "ami_name": "dmm-packer-example-{{timestamp}}"

  }]

}

The output from is:

-- packer build example.json --

amazon-ebs output will be in this color.

==> amazon-ebs: Prevalidating AMI Name...

    amazon-ebs: Found Image ID: ami-0b898040803850657

==> amazon-ebs: Creating temporary keypair: packer_5d52168d-886b-7207-f14a-79d068c30677

==> amazon-ebs: Creating temporary security group for this instance: packer_5d52168e-2e7b-01b3-b40a-b3461f6d2e04

==> amazon-ebs: Authorizing access to port 22 on the temporary security group...

==> amazon-ebs: Launching a source AWS instance...

    amazon-ebs: Instance ID: i-080c2485a8759a2c7

==> amazon-ebs: Waiting for instance (i-080c2485a8759a2c7) to become ready...

==> amazon-ebs: Adding tags to source instance

    amazon-ebs: Adding tag: "Name": "Packer Builder"

==> amazon-ebs: Waiting for SSH to become available...

==> amazon-ebs: Connected to SSH!

==> amazon-ebs: Stopping the source instance...

    amazon-ebs: Stopping instance, attempt 1

==> amazon-ebs: Waiting for the instance to stop...

==> amazon-ebs: Creating the AMI: dmm-packer-example-1565660813

    amazon-ebs: AMI: ami-0b1ff7d63a5da8f06

==> amazon-ebs: Waiting for AMI to become ready...

==> amazon-ebs: Terminating the source AWS instance...

==> amazon-ebs: Cleaning up any extra volumes...

==> amazon-ebs: No volumes to clean up, skipping

==> amazon-ebs: Deleting temporary security group...

==> amazon-ebs: Deleting temporary keypair...

Build 'amazon-ebs' finished.

==> Builds finished. The artifacts of successful builds are:

--> amazon-ebs: AMIs were created:

us-east-1: ami-0b1ff7d63a5da8f06

-- aws ec2 describe-images --region us-east-1 --image-ids ami-0b1ff7d63a5da8f06

{

    "Images": []

}

[Rickard von Essen]

This is 99% sure a permission issue with the credentials you are using to run the aws cli. Double check that. 

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