Enable EC2 Serial Console access

[ewbankkit]

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Description

EC2 Serial Console provides a simple and secure way to troubleshoot boot and network connectivity issues by establishing a connection to the serial port of an instance.

New or Affected Resource(s)

• aws_ec2_serial_console_access

Potential Terraform Configuration

resource "aws_ec2_serial_console_access" "example" {
   enabled = true
}

References

Announcement.
Blog post.
User Guide.

Requires AWS SDK v1.38.9:

• build(deps): bump github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go from 1.38.6 to 1.38.9 #18497

[bodgit]

I've submitted #23443 which adds a resource and data source for this.

[github-actions]

This functionality has been released in v4.4.0 of the Terraform AWS Provider. Please see the Terraform documentation on provider versioning or reach out if you need any assistance upgrading.

For further feature requests or bug reports with this functionality, please create a new GitHub issue following the template. Thank you!

[github-actions]

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