Perma diff in EC2 LaunchConfiguration userData causes replaces

[flostadler]

Describe what happened

Since version v6.51.0 the userData property of EC2 Launch Configurations shows a diff on every deployment.
The userData property is marked as ForceNew, so this causes replacements.
This can cause downtime, because this can cascade into ASG instances being replaced.

This does not reproduce under v6.50.1 of the provider. My suspicion is that this is caused by the rollout of PlanResourceChange as there were no changes to the LaunchConfiguration resource in the last 3 months (see).

Sample program

import * as pulumi from "@pulumi/pulumi";
import * as aws from "@pulumi/aws";
import * as awsx from "@pulumi/awsx";

const amiId = pulumi.interpolate`/aws/service/eks/optimized-ami/1.30/amazon-linux-2023/x86_64/standard/recommended/image_id`.apply(name =>
    aws.ssm.getParameter({ name }, { async: true })
  ).apply(result => result.value);

const userData = `#!/bin/bash

/etc/eks/bootstrap.sh
`;

const nodeLaunchConfiguration = new aws.ec2.LaunchConfiguration("test",
    {
        associatePublicIpAddress: true,
        imageId: amiId,
        instanceType: "t2.medium",
        userData: userData,
    }
);

Log output

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Affected Resource(s)

aws:ec2:LaunchConfiguration

Output of pulumi about

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Additional context

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[flostadler]

This impacts EKS as well: pulumi/pulumi-eks#1345.

[flostadler]

If you're running into this, you can downgrade to v6.50.1 of the AWS provider while we're working on fixing this

[flostadler]

I was able to pin-point it to this: pulumi/pulumi-terraform-bridge#2408

[pulumi-bot]

This issue has been addressed in PR #4450 and shipped in release v6.51.1.