func resourceAwsLaunchConfigurationCreate(d *schema.ResourceData, meta interface{}) error {
	autoscalingconn := meta.(*AWSClient).autoscalingconn

	var createLaunchConfigurationOpts autoscaling.CreateLaunchConfiguration
	createLaunchConfigurationOpts.Name = d.Get("name").(string)
	createLaunchConfigurationOpts.IamInstanceProfile = d.Get("iam_instance_profile").(string)
	createLaunchConfigurationOpts.ImageId = d.Get("image_id").(string)
	createLaunchConfigurationOpts.InstanceType = d.Get("instance_type").(string)
	createLaunchConfigurationOpts.KeyName = d.Get("key_name").(string)
	createLaunchConfigurationOpts.UserData = d.Get("user_data").(string)
	createLaunchConfigurationOpts.AssociatePublicIpAddress = d.Get("associate_public_ip_address").(bool)

	if v, ok := d.GetOk("security_groups"); ok {
		createLaunchConfigurationOpts.SecurityGroups = expandStringList(
			v.(*schema.Set).List())
	}

	log.Printf("[DEBUG] autoscaling create launch configuration: %#v", createLaunchConfigurationOpts)
	_, err := autoscalingconn.CreateLaunchConfiguration(&createLaunchConfigurationOpts)
	if err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("Error creating launch configuration: %s", err)
	}

	d.SetId(d.Get("name").(string))
	log.Printf("[INFO] launch configuration ID: %s", d.Id())

	// We put a Retry here since sometimes eventual consistency bites
	// us and we need to retry a few times to get the LC to load properly
	return resource.Retry(30*time.Second, func() error {
		return resourceAwsLaunchConfigurationRead(d, meta)
	})
}