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Use `&lt;aws.ec2.InstanceType&gt; stringVariable`. E.g. `&lt;aws.ec2.InstanceType&gt; config.get("instanceType")` (copied from <https://github.com/pulumi/examples/blob/master/aws-ts-ruby-on-rails/config.ts#L41>)

FYI, I have opened this PR to relax this requirement

<https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi-aws/pull/739>

this will allow the aws.ec2.InstanceType or a string representation of it

To be fair, this only tripped me up because I'm new to Typescript. I prefer types be strong-typed if possible. Had I known how to cast I would have just done so.

<@UMHEKSZMH> Nice to hear. I’m also in to have more types in Pulumi than less. Maybe you want to follow the PR, as well? Just added my 2 cents there.