Packer does not copy AMI tags cross accounts

[fernando-eickhoff]

Overview of the Issue

I am building an AMI and copying it to another 3 regions and to another 3 accounts. The tags in the AMI are copied successfully along with the AMI to the another regions, but not the another accounts.

Reproduction Steps

Creates a new AMI with the following snippet

data "amazon-ami" "amazon_linux_2" {
  access_key = "${var.aws_access_key}"
  filters = {
    name                = "amzn2-ami-hvm-*-x86_64-gp2*"
    root-device-type    = "ebs"
    virtualization-type = "hvm"
  }
}

Add the tags block:

  tags = {
    Name          = "amazon-linux-${regex_replace(timestamp(), "[- TZ:]", "")}"
    ansible       = "true"
    packer        = "true"
    cross-account = "true"
  }

Copy the AMI to another regions, example: ami_regions = ["us-east-1", "us-east-2", "us-west-2"]

Copy the AMI to another accounts, example: ami_users = ["account_id_1", "account_id_2", "account_id_3"]

The AMI is created in the accounts account_id_1 in us-east-1, us-east-2, us-west-2 with the proper tags. The AMI is copied to account_id_2 and account_id_3 successfully, but the tags are not there.

Plugin and Packer version

Plugin: version = ">= 1.2.6" Packer: 1.9.2