amazon-ebs timeout creating temporary keypair

[rchekaluk]

This failure mode began occurring (only in the past couple of days):

Debug mode enabled. Builds will not be parallelized.
amazon-ebs output will be in this color.

==> amazon-ebs: Creating temporary keypair: packer XXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXX
Build 'amazon-ebs' errored: Error creating temporary keypair: Get https://ec2.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/?AWSAccessKeyId=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX&Action=CreateKeyPair&KeyName=packer+XXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXX&Signature=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX&SignatureMethod=HmacSHA256&SignatureVersion=2&Timestamp=2014-10-24T10%3A06%3A58Z&Version=2013-07-15: dial tcp: i/o timeout

==> Some builds didn't complete successfully and had errors:
--> amazon-ebs: Error creating temporary keypair: Get https://ec2.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/?AWSAccessKeyId=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX&Action=CreateKeyPair&KeyName=packer+XXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXX&Signature=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX&SignatureMethod=HmacSHA256&SignatureVersion=2&Timestamp=2014-10-24T10%3A06%3A58Z&Version=2013-07-15: dial tcp: i/o timeout

Yet, pasting the identical URL into a curl command works fine, though does take roughly 10+ seconds to return. Presumably, there's some timeout value involved here that may need to be raised.

Related to these?

• Default timeout of 5 seconds per request is too low mitchellh/goamz#80
• Failures due to recoverable AWS errors have returned #1539
• Error waiting for AMI #617

[rchekaluk]

Upgrading to current stable packer seems to have alleviated this issue. Sorry for the noise.