Cloud images published with private snapshots in AWS regions us-gov-east-1 and us-gov-west-1

[Jack Adamson]

Cloud images published in AWS regions us-gov-east-1 and us-gov-west-1 after June 24th for Ubuntu Bionic HVM-SSD have private snapshots for their block devices.
This means that the AMIs cannot be copied, and volumes cannot be created from them.
Instances can still be launched from the effected AMIs, but workflows that involve creating volumes from the Ubuntu community AMIs can no longer function.

In non-gov regions such as us-east-1, the snapshots for the new AMIs are still public, and so are still working.
In the gov regions, the images from January 22nd and before have public snapshots, and also work.

Effected AMIs:

Region AMI ID Snapshot ID Creation Date
us-gov-east-1 ami-02f82799d90446d30 snap-000aaf28409262cad June 24, 2021
us-gov-east-1 ami-0236f9dece46d05cd snap-0cb921222ccc4cce6 June 24, 2021
us-gov-east-1 ami-0f3f92ae2c7eda48c snap-076f7bb99d0a16d31 August 10, 2021

us-gov-west-1 ami-0c4964345b4e772bb snap-0b6d069a310a4ccfb June 24, 2021
us-gov-west-1 ami-08822400cdab1ba63 snap-0ff2871914c96b201 June 24, 2021
us-gov-west-1 ami-0a5d4e1a1638c8333 snap-02f8406087ee021e6 August 10, 2021

[Pat Viafore (patviafore)]

Thank you for reporting this bug. I have confirmed that the snapshots were private, and have marked them public.

I am in the process of looking for any other snapshots that have been marked private and will update those as well.

The root cause has been identified, and we are working to fix it so that the images never go private in the first place.

[Jack Adamson (jadamson1)]

I can confirm that the snapshots are now public.
Thanks for the fast turnaround!