feat: AMI Deregistration Protection

[schniber]

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Description

AWS released in May 2024 the capability to protect AMIs against mistaken Deregistrations.

• https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/05/amazon-ec2-protects-amis-accidental-deregistration/
• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/deregister-ami.html#ami-deregistration-protection

It would be nice to take this feature into account in order to streamline the setup of this additional layer of protection at AMI build time through Packer.

Use Case(s)

Some use cases could be:

• Prevention against mistaken AMI deregistration,
• legal locks for compliance, ...

Potential configuration

source "amazon-ebs" "basic-example" {
  source_ami_filter {
    filters = {
       virtualization-type = "hvm"
       name = "ubuntu/images/*ubuntu-xenial-16.04-amd64-server-*"
       root-device-type = "ebs"
    }
    owners = ["099720109477"]
    most_recent = true
    deregistration_protection {
      enabled = true
      cooldown_period = "24h"
    }
  }
}

Potential References

AWS References:

• https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/05/amazon-ec2-protects-amis-accidental-deregistration/
• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/deregister-ami.html#ami-deregistration-protection

[lbajolet-hashicorp]

Hi @schniber,

Thanks for bringing this one up! This looks like a good candidate for a first contribution, would you be interested in contributing this? We can provide help if you're interested, let us know!

Otherwise we can see to include this in the future, can't promise when as other priorities clash with this, but we'll keep an eye open.