Failed to find AMI for AWSMachine following the documentation quick start about cluster-api-provider-aws HOT 4 OPEN

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Also tried with kubernetes in v1.27.6, same error occurs.

E0518 21:11:44.458942       1 awsmachine_controller.go:520] "unable to create instance" err="failed to create AWSMachine instance: failed to find ami: found no AMIs with the name: \"capa-ami-ubuntu-18.04-?1.27.6-*\""

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Adding the AMI ID to both AWSMachineTemplate spec solved it for me:

apiVersion: infrastructure.cluster.x-k8s.io/v1beta2
kind: AWSMachineTemplate
metadata:
  name: capi-quickstart-md-0
  namespace: default
spec:
  template:
    spec:
      ami:
        id: ami-0e0ff5dacd34970c0
      iamInstanceProfile: nodes.cluster-api-provider-aws.sigs.k8s.io
      instanceType: t3.large
      sshKeyName: default

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Query clusterawsadm ami list to find the available AMI versions. If you do not find the supported Kubernetes version AMI, use the latest available AMI equivalent to the latest Kubernetes version.

I encountered the same error, and the above trace resolved it for me.

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