{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/mitchellh/packer/issues/1892","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/mitchellh/packer/issues/1892/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/mitchellh/packer/issues/1892/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/mitchellh/packer/issues/1892/events","html_url":"https://github.com/mitchellh/packer/issues/1892","id":56343331,"number":1892,"title":"Packer Docs : AWS AMI ID is invalid","user":{"login":"hanxue","id":760008,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/760008?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/hanxue","html_url":"https://github.com/hanxue","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/hanxue/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/hanxue/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/hanxue/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/hanxue/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/hanxue/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/hanxue/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/hanxue/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/hanxue/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/hanxue/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"closed","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":5,"created_at":"2015-02-03T07:25:47Z","updated_at":"2015-12-17T14:37:49Z","closed_at":"2015-02-25T00:34:12Z","body":"On the page https://www.packer.io/intro/getting-started/build-image.html , the example AMI-ID provided `ami-3d50120d` does not exist in US-East-1, but in US-West-2 (Oregon)\r\n\r\nMight want to update it to, say, `ami-84aa1cec`\r\n\r\n"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/mitchellh/packer/issues/comments/165468197","html_url":"https://github.com/mitchellh/packer/issues/1892#issuecomment-165468197","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/mitchellh/packer/issues/1892","id":165468197,"user":{"login":"jezard","id":2387216,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/2387216?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/jezard","html_url":"https://github.com/jezard","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jezard/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jezard/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jezard/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jezard/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jezard/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jezard/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jezard/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jezard/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jezard/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-12-17T14:37:49Z","updated_at":"2015-12-17T14:37:49Z","body":"@blaskey's change works for me too using a source_ami which I created from an existing instance."}}