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doing a describe instance clearly shows that all of the fields (ami, instance_type, etc) exists for these resources so I am at a lost as to why pulumi is having issue picking them up :disappointed:

Any pointers would be great. I've exhausted the documentation and have spent hours on this

Did you ever figure this out?  I'm having the same problem.