AWS instance example: main.tf

provider "aws" {
  region  = "us-west-2"
  profile = "your_profile_name_here"
}
 
resource "aws_instance" "MYexample" {
 ami           = "ami-08d70e59c07c61a3a"
 instance_type = "t2.micro" 

 tags = {
   Name = "your_name_here"
 }
}

Related terms

• AWS instance example with aws_ami lookup
• terraform state show aws_instance.MYexample
• terraform apply
• Terraform examples
• variables.tf
• Terraform: Data sources

Error: creating EC2 Instance: InvalidAMIID.NotFound: The image id '[ami-08d70e59c07c61a3a]' does not exist

See also

• Terraform examples, main.tf, Aws instance example: main.tf, terraform apply
• terraform [untaint | fmt | apply |show | state | init | plan | console | output | validate | destroy | debug | import | providers | get | graph | workspaces | resource | login | -var-file | state mv | state pull | state push | state replace-provider | state rm | force-unlock | env | tfe | --version | remote-exec | delete on termination | deprecated commands | terraform --help]
• Terraform, OpenTofu, Installation, Terraform AWS, Terraform GCP, Terraform commands, Terraform Cloud, Terraform Enterprise (TFE), HCL, HIL, meta-arguments, providers, modules, resource, provisioners, data sources, backends: remote backends, examples, configuration files, state files, variables, types, Terraform Registry, conditionals: depends_on, functions, Blocks, dynamic blocks, errors, Terragrunt, Terraformer, Terratest, Terraform certifications, Terraform map type, Terraform Associate, Terraform: list type, TF_VAR_, TF_LOG, Terraform provider versioning, Terraform Style Conventions, Required version, Terraform plugin, Terraform Named Values, tags, Changelog, tfsec, tflint, Operators, Expressions: for, splat, Debugging, Namespaces, Terraform Landing Zones, CDKTF, Atmos