{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/mitchellh/packer/issues/1646","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/mitchellh/packer/issues/1646/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/mitchellh/packer/issues/1646/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/mitchellh/packer/issues/1646/events","html_url":"https://github.com/mitchellh/packer/issues/1646","id":47392853,"number":1646,"title":"Packer fails on eu-central-1 region","user":{"login":"igmar","id":1029870,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1029870?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/igmar","html_url":"https://github.com/igmar","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/igmar/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/igmar/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/igmar/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/igmar/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/igmar/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/igmar/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/igmar/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/igmar/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/igmar/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/mitchellh/packer/labels/bug","name":"bug","color":"fc2929"},{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/mitchellh/packer/labels/builder/amazon","name":"builder/amazon","color":"d4c5f9"}],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":11,"created_at":"2014-10-31T13:19:52Z","updated_at":"2015-02-25T17:12:11Z","closed_at":null,"body":"Packer tools fail on the eu-central-1 region. The same happens with aws-cli < 1.5.4, because on that region, the v4 signature is mandatory.\r\n\r\nIt ends up with a : \r\namazon-ebs: Error querying AMI: AWS was not able to validate the provided access credentials (AuthFailure)\r\n\r\nThe access keys are correct: The same credentials work fine with aws-cli and any region other then eu-central-1."},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/mitchellh/packer/issues/comments/76005120","html_url":"https://github.com/mitchellh/packer/issues/1646#issuecomment-76005120","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/mitchellh/packer/issues/1646","id":76005120,"user":{"login":"lutnos","id":4254983,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/4254983?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/lutnos","html_url":"https://github.com/lutnos","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/lutnos/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/lutnos/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/lutnos/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/lutnos/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/lutnos/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/lutnos/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/lutnos/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/lutnos/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/lutnos/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-02-25T17:12:11Z","updated_at":"2015-02-25T17:12:11Z","body":"If copying, note that permissions and tags are not copied (at least by the AWS console), so will have to be duplicated onto the image after copying.\r\n\r\nAlso watch out, if trying to copy using packer and including eu-central-1. After the failure copy images will have been created in other regions, but the tags and permissions will not have been set on those copies."}}