Error waiting for AMI: Failed with ResourceNotReady error, which can have a variety of causes

[lmayorga1980]

Overview of the Issue

Consistently getting ResourceNotReady: exceeded wait attempts errors using a high performance instance type.

Reproduction Steps

Use the following AWS Source AMI and use a specific instance_type => m5.large.

aws ec2 describe-images --owners self amazon --filters "Name=name,Values=Windows_Server-2019-English-Full-SQL_2019_Standard-????.??.??" "Name=root-device-type,Values=ebs" | jq -r '.Images| sort_by(.CreationDate)' | jq -r '.[].Name'

Packer works fine until is time to wait for aws to return the ami response and crashes with

==> amazon-ebs.sql2019-full: Waiting for AMI to become ready...
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2555 | ==> amazon-ebs.sql2019-full: Error waiting for AMI: Failed with ResourceNotReady error, which can have a variety of causes. For help troubleshooting, check our docs: https://www.packer.io/docs/builders/amazon.html#resourcenotready-error
2556 | ==> amazon-ebs.sql2019-full: original error: ResourceNotReady: exceeded wait attempts

Packer version

v1.11.2

Simplified Packer Template

source "amazon-ebs" "sql2019-full" {
  communicator  = "winrm"
  region        = var.REGION
  ami_name      = var.AMI_NAME
  instance_type = "m5.large"
  iam_instance_profile = var.IAM_INSTANCE_PROFILE
  security_group_filter {
    filters = {
      "tag:Type" : "windows"
    }
  }
  vpc_filter {
    filters = {
      "tag:Name" : var.VPC_NAME,
      "isDefault" : "false"
    }
  }
  subnet_filter {
    filters = {
      "tag:Name" : var.AWS_SUBNET_FILTER
    }
    most_free = true
    random    = false
  }

  launch_block_device_mappings {
    device_name           = "/dev/sda1"
    delete_on_termination = true
    volume_size           = 75
    volume_type           = "gp3"
  }

  source_ami_filter {
    filters = {
      virtualization-type = "hvm"
      name                = "Windows_Server-2019-English-Full-SQL_2019_Standard-????.??.??"
      root-device-type    = "ebs"
    }
    owners      = [var.OWNER_ID]
    most_recent = true
  }

  user_data_file           = "../../scripts/win/common/ec2-userdata.ps1"
  windows_password_timeout = "30m"
  winrm_use_ssl            = true
  winrm_insecure           = true
  winrm_username           = var.ADMIN_USER
  winrm_timeout            = "6h"

  metadata_options {
    http_endpoint               = "enabled"
    http_tokens                 = "required"
    http_put_response_hop_limit = 1
  }
}

build {
  sources = [
    "source.amazon-ebs.sql2019-full"
  ]

  provisioner "powershell" {
  
    }
    inline = ["Write-Host Hello"]
  }
...

Operating system and Environment details

This runs in an Amazon Linux 2023 AWS Codebuild container with 3GB of memory.