The AWS AMI I am runnig for the past 1/2 year isn't found via aws.ec2.Instance(...) during a pulumi preview. I know the ami string is absolutely valid, but is no longer present on the AWS marketplace. error: Error: invocation of awsec2/getAmigetAmi returned an error: invoking awsec2/getAmigetAmi: 1 error occurred: * Your query returned no results. Please change your search criteria and try again. Do I just try/catch this error so that

pulumi preview

succeeds? This seems very hacky

If the AMI no longer exists, then do you really want to try/catch the error? Don't you want to update the AMI to something that does exist?

@little-cartoon-10569 - updating the AMI would completely destroy my staging or production EC2s, so definitely NOT! The better solution can be found @ https://app.slack.com/client/T85C88L30/CRH5ENVDX Thanks for your response. -- L

That link doesn't work for me.

You could do an

ignoreChanges

on the AMI property of the EC2 instance: https://www.pulumi.com/docs/concepts/options/ignorechanges/ This would let you get past the missing AMI error (for now), but it’s still something you’ll need to address at some point.

And you could avoid getAmi, and just hard-code the AMI id.

Or provide the AMI ID as a configuration value to the stack. 🙂