Issues

• Support http_protocol_ipv6 in metadata_options

  enhancement
  hashicorp/packer-plugin-amazon#708 · Filter by author phils opened on Oct 3, 2026

• Respect the AWS account default when metadata_options.http_tokens is omitted

  enhancement
  hashicorp/packer-plugin-amazon#703 · Filter by author dbilling opened on Sep 9, 2026

• Feature request: ordered instance-type capacity fallback for on-demand builds

  hashicorp/packer-plugin-amazon#701 · Filter by author cchristous opened on Aug 24, 2026

• Use SSM ResumeSession API to support EC2 instance reboot via SSM session-manager-plugin

  enhancement
  hashicorp/packer-plugin-amazon#699 · Filter by author mjnowen opened on Aug 12, 2026

• Support AMI Watermark

  enhancement
  hashicorp/packer-plugin-amazon#687 · Filter by author kimxogus opened on Jun 25, 2026
  1

• ERROR log level noise: IMDSv2 token failures on every SSH operation during build

  hashicorp/packer-plugin-amazon#686 · Filter by author ednaldoonofre opened on Jun 23, 2026

• amazon-ebs: nil pointer dereference (SIGSEGV) when capacity_reservation_id is set without capacity_reservation_preference

  hashicorp/packer-plugin-amazon#684 · Filter by author vincer opened on Jun 16, 2026

• EBS source instance termination wait can dominate cleanup

  hashicorp/packer-plugin-amazon#682 · Filter by author FocalChord opened on Jun 15, 2026

• EBS builds with skip_create_ami still run AMI preparation steps

  hashicorp/packer-plugin-amazon#680 · Filter by author FocalChord opened on Jun 15, 2026

• amazon-ebs v1.8.1: SSH stdout relay ~50-70x slower than v1.8.0; verbose provisioners time out with "exit status: 123"

  hashicorp/packer-plugin-amazon#678 · Filter by author miguelhar opened on Jun 1, 2026
  12

• v1.8.1 regression: High CPU usage on ARM graviton servers

  bug
  hashicorp/packer-plugin-amazon#676 · Filter by author MarcWazo opened on May 26, 2026
  14

• Allow IamInstanceProfile to be optional when using SSM

  enhancement
  hashicorp/packer-plugin-amazon#664 · Filter by author dezgeg opened on May 11, 2026

• Invalid region: ap-southeast-4

  bug
  hashicorp/packer-plugin-amazon#651 · Filter by author miles-megaport opened on Feb 20, 2026
  1

• amazon-ami data source: add sort_by="name" option to select AMIs by lexicographic order instead of creation date

  enhancement
  hashicorp/packer-plugin-amazon#650 · Filter by author juan-rodriguez-gracia opened on Feb 19, 2026

• Exceeded max wait time for ImageAvailable waiter

  bug
  hashicorp/packer-plugin-amazon#642 · Filter by author a-jackson opened on Dec 16, 2025
  4

• amazon-ebs: error uploading powershell script after sysprep

  bug
  hashicorp/packer-plugin-amazon#637 · Filter by author ShawnHardwick opened on Nov 25, 2025
  2

• amazon-ebs: failed to get shared config profile, default #13533

  bug
  hashicorp/packer-plugin-amazon#636 · Filter by author fredericgboutin-yapla opened on Nov 19, 2025
  9

• Documentation: Reference skip_ami_run_tags in the docs for run_tags

  hashicorp/packer-plugin-amazon#623 · Filter by author dvg-p4 opened on Oct 11, 2025

• amazon-ebs: WinRM connection error unknown error Post "https://<ip>:5986/wsman": EOF

  bug
  hashicorp/packer-plugin-amazon#621 · Filter by author zamanh opened on Oct 8, 2025

• WinRM issue?

  bug
  hashicorp/packer-plugin-amazon#619 · Filter by author tivanov-qb opened on Sep 26, 2025
  7

• PACKER_PATH arg for Makefile to fix support packer symlinks and/or conflicting paths.

  enhancement
  hashicorp/packer-plugin-amazon#604 · Filter by author dwc0011 opened on Sep 9, 2025

• CHROOT Builder user controlled/defined "manual-mount-command" option to allow for total custom partitioning and mounting procedures

  enhancement
  hashicorp/packer-plugin-amazon#602 · Filter by author dwc0011 opened on Sep 9, 2025

• Unable to use ami_regions when Tags-on-create policy enforced

  bug
  hashicorp/packer-plugin-amazon#591 · Filter by author a1exx-k opened on Aug 14, 2025
  4

• EC2 Fast Launch cannot be disabled when using additional parameters

  bug
  hashicorp/packer-plugin-amazon#570 · Filter by author ShawnHardwick opened on Jul 14, 2025
  1

• Reserved Private IP for AWS Instance in Packer.

  question
  hashicorp/packer-plugin-amazon#558 · Filter by author rb665848 opened on Jul 1, 2025