Thank you very much for the answer Rickard. It is too bad one cannot rely
on that functionality but at least I am now aware of the issue.
On Fri, 6 Apr 2018, 11:08 Rickard von Essen,
wrote:
> This is how AWS works. AMI's can be shared with other accounts, basically
This is how AWS works. AMI's can be shared with other accounts, basically
giving them read access. But tags are a separate construct, metadata
separate from the resources they "tag". They are not shared and and not
visible from the other account just because the AMI is shared.
The other account
I have built an AWS AMI image using the EBS backed builder and I set the
"ami_users" to a couple of different accounts so the ami is available for
using in all of these acounts.
I noticed that the AMI in the account which I built the image on has all
the AMI tags I configured in the packer