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) }) }