[Bug]: AMI SSM Alias

[jnicolas89]

Terraform Core Version

1.9.3

AWS Provider Version

5.61

Affected Resource(s)

Using AMI Alias in Launch Templates

Expected Behavior

The launch template along with the ASG should have been created without any issue.

Actual Behavior

An error message is shown: CreateAutoScalingGroup, https response error StatusCode: 400, api error ValidationError: Invalid id: "resolve:ssm:****" expecting ami-....

Relevant Error/Panic Output Snippet

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Terraform Configuration Files

terraform {

required_providers { aws = { source = "hashicorp/aws" version = "~> 5.61" }

} }

provider "aws" { region = "eu-west-1" }

resource "aws_launch_template" "lt-asg-alias" { name = "lt-asg-alias" image_id = "resolve:ssm:parameter-asg-ami-alias" description = "Alias LT" }

resource "aws_autoscaling_group" "asg-alias" { availability_zones = ["eu-west-1a"] desired_capacity = 1 max_size = 1 min_size = 1

mixed_instances_policy { launch_template { launch_template_specification { launch_template_id = aws_launch_template.lt-asg-alias.id }

  override {
    instance_requirements {
      memory_mib {
        min = 1000
      }

      vcpu_count {
        min = 4
      }
    }
  }
}

} }

Steps to Reproduce

try to recreate a launch template using ssm ami id alias.

Debug Output

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Panic Output

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Important Factoids

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References

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Would you like to implement a fix?

None

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