packer execution time has increased by two/four times after updating the version from 1.1.4 to any higher version

[varunm17]

Overview of the Issue

We are using the latest version of Ansibe packer plugin version : 1.1.1.

We are customising many different OS as per our requirements. We were using the version 1.1.4 for packer-plugin-amazon and we plan to use the latest version of the plugin (1.2.9), however after updating the plugin version we have observed that the build time has almost doubled in case of linux AMI's and for windows the build time has increased by almost 4 times.

Reproduction Steps

• Execute ansible playbook with version 1.1.4 and any higher version and you will observe the build times.
• We tested with all available version and we are summarising our observation about execution time

Operating System \ amazon packer plugin version	1.1.4	1.1.5	1.1.6	1.2.0	1.2.1	1.2.2	1.2.3	1.2.4	1.2.5	1.2.6	1.2.7	1.2.8	1.2.9
Amazon Linux 2	14 minutes, 4 seconds	35 minutes, 2 seconds	34 minutes, 22 seconds	35 minutes, 3 seconds	36 minutes, 30 seconds	33 minutes, 31 seconds	36 minutes, 9 seconds	34 minutes, 31 seconds	34 minutes, 43 seconds	34 minutes, 58 seconds	37 minutes, 47 seconds	35 minutes, 32 seconds	35 minutes, 47 seconds
Ubuntu 20	19 minutes, 16 seconds	46 minutes, 12 seconds	46 minutes, 58 seconds	44 minutes, 25 seconds	43 minutes, 43 seconds	43 minutes, 50 seconds	44 minutes, 43 seconds	44 minutes, 43 seconds	44 minutes, 43 seconds	50 minutes, 15 seconds	46 minutes, 11 seconds	43 minutes, 14 seconds	43 minutes, 41 seconds
Ubuntu 22	20 minutes, 44 seconds	42 minutes, 44 seconds	45 minutes, 5 seconds	45 minutes, 39 seconds	43 minutes, 1 seconds	42 minutes, 43 seconds	41 minutes, 40 seconds	42 minutes, 52 seconds	42 minutes, 34 seconds	43 minutes, 14 seconds	42 minutes, 26 seconds	42 minutes, 56 seconds	43 minutes, 26 seconds
Windows 2019	22 minutes, 22 seconds	1 hours, 22 minutes, 35 seconds	1 hours, 22 minutes, 54 seconds	1 hours, 24 minutes, 6 seconds	1 hours, 42 minutes, 14 seconds	1 hours, 25 minutes, 36 seconds	1 hours, 18 minutes, 47 seconds	1 hours, 22 minutes, 25 seconds	1 hours, 21 minutes, 53 seconds	1 hours, 40 minutes, 21 seconds	1 hours, 19 minutes, 19 seconds	1 hours, 23 minutes, 43 seconds	1 hours, 26 minutes, 1 seconds

Plugin and Packer version

Packer version: 1.10.0 [go1.20.11 linux amd64]
Ansibe packer plugin version : 1.1.1

Operating system and Environment details

Operating System:

• AmazonLinux2
• Ubuntu20
• Ubuntu22
• WindowsServer 2019

Log Fragments and crash.log files

For sharing the logs we have executed only few ansible playbooks, hence the execution time is on the lower end but still we can observe the execution time after upgrading the plugin has increased significantly

Operating System \ amazon packer plugin version	1.1.4 - log fragment gist URL	1.1.4 - execution time	1.2.9 - log fragment	1.2.9- execution time
Amazon Linux 2	amazon_linux_2_plugin_version_1.1.4.log	3 minutes, 17 seconds	amazon_linux_2_plugin_version_1.2.9.log	6 minutes, 55 seconds
Ubuntu 20	ubuntu_20_plugin_version_1.1.4.log	3 minutes, 6 seconds	ubuntu_20_plugin_version_1.2.9.log	5 minutes, 51 seconds
Ubuntu 22	ubuntu_22_plugin_version_1.1.4.log	2 minutes, 26 seconds	ubuntu_22_plugin_version_1.2.9.log	4 minutes, 38 seconds
Windows Server 2019	windows_2019_plugin_version_1.1.4.log	3 minutes, 17 seconds and 3 minutes, 3 seconds	windows_2019_plugin_version_1.2.9.log	9 minutes, 3 seconds and 14 minutes, 27 seconds

[lbajolet-hashicorp]

Duplicate of hashicorp/packer-plugin-amazon#449

Since the version of the Ansible plugin doesn't seem to change between both, it's likelier to be linked to the AWS plugin, so we'll focus on this issue only.