Salt-Cloud assesment: AWS is changing the Instance ID format, does have any impact?

[DanyC97]

AWS just released a notification saying

We're transitioning instance IDs and reservation IDs to a longer format

AWS is transitioning instance IDs and reservation IDs to a longer format. 
The old format is a resource identifier followed by an 8-character string, and the new format is a resource identifier followed by a 17-character string. 
You have until December 2016 to opt in to the longer format.

If you do not take any action, you will be opted in automatically on December 2016, when all new instance IDs and Reservation IDs will be created with the longer format. 
Until the deadline, you can opt in and out of the new format as needed. 
Only newly created resources receive longer IDs; existing resources are unaffected.

Manage your transition to longer instance IDs and reservation IDs with Resource ID length management, and read more about the new format.

The new format is here

[techhat]

I was wondering when Amazon would get around to doing that.

We'll want to double-check of course, but last I checked Salt Cloud doesn't care what the IDs actually look like, so long as they're there. This should not have any impact.

[DanyC97]

👍 @techhat
I was thinking that is the case but thought a pair of eyes won't hurt.

[rallytime]

@DanyC97 and @techhat please see PR #30433, as it is related.

[techhat]

Thanks @rallytime. I wasn't aware of that pillar. Do you know of any other regular expressions that have to do with AWS?

[rallytime]

I don't. I just saw that PR come in today and remembered this issue. We should look around though...

[rallytime]

After an audit of the related aws code, and now that #30553 and #30433 have been merged, this issue has been resolved. Thanks for bringing it to our attention @DanyC97!

[DanyC97]

Always a pleasure @rallytime 👍

[QuinnyPig]

It would appear that salt-cloud is still provisioning instances with short IDs in environments where long IDs are supported.

[ehrhardt]

I'm unable to use salt-cloud. It's not working properly for long instance IDs and volume IDs.

[QuinnyPig]

Works well here. What are you seeing?

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