Creating a golden image backed by instance storage and not EBS

Question

I have a golden image pipeline running without problem backed by an EBS volume, but trying to create the same for an instance store backed ami seems to always produce the same error. The issue is that the imagebuilder pipeline continuously attempts to tag a non-existent EBS volume and therefore fails;

Reason for failure: You cannot specify tags for EBS volumes if there are no EBS volumes being created by the request.

The base image is ami-08d82c356d670cf9c which has the root device type INSTANCE-STORE, and there are no tags applied anywhere in the pipeline (not in the configuration, distribution, recipe or infrastructure). There is little documentation regarding a golden image using instance storage and any attempt to create one results in the same failure.

Does anyone have an idea on where this application of tags is taking place in the process in order to avoid it?

Thanks

Answer 1

Confirmed with AWS that Image Builder does not support the use of AMIs backed by instance store, as they use ec2:CreateImage which does not support it, and also requires the instance to be shut down to create an image.