Error: Could not run: Puppet detected a problem with the information returned from AWS

[anishnath]

[root@puppet XYZ]# puppet resource cloudwatch_alarm -y
Error: Could not run: Puppet detected a problem with the information returned from AWS
when looking up cloudwatch_alarm in us-east-1. The specific error was:

Malformed policy ARN. Given: arn:aws:sns:us-east-1:754261010230:testuser

Rather than report on cloudwatch_alarm resources in an inconsistent state we have exited.
This could be because some other process is modifying AWS at the same time.

All other resources are working properly expect the cloud_watch

[bengler9]

I'm getting the same error message. It looks like the cloudwatch_alarm resource currently does not support the Notification Action.

[anishnath]

AWS module is great we need support for the following tooSSL Configuration on the loadbalancer Changing the Instance Type Enable Disable Source/Dst CheckCloud Watch  
 

 On Thursday, 5 November 2015 1:10 AM, Brian Engler <notifications@github.com> wrote:

I'm getting the same error message. It looks like the cloudwatch_alarm resource currently does not support the Notification Action. —
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[agarstang]

Reproduced this on Puppet 4.3.2. Using IAM Role to assign permissions to Puppetmaster, no combination of polices allowed me to list 'cloudwatch_alarm' resources.

~# puppet resource cloudwatch_alarm --debug --verbose
Debug: Runtime environment: puppet_version=4.3.2, ruby_version=2.1.8, run_mode=user, default_encoding=UTF-8
Debug: Evicting cache entry for environment 'production'
Debug: Caching environment 'production' (ttl = 0 sec)
Error: Could not run: Puppet detected a problem with the information returned from AWS
when looking up cloudwatch_alarm in eu-west-1. The specific error was:

Malformed policy ARN. Given: arn:aws:sns:eu-west-1:xxxxxxxxxxxx:dynamodb

Rather than report on cloudwatch_alarm resources in an inconsistent state we have exited.
This could be because some other process is modifying AWS at the same time.

[ahenroid]

@anishnath @benglersc @agarstang, are you still seeing this with a recent version of the AWS module? I couldn't reproduce this error. But I can take a closer look if this is still an issue.

[taibi-ibtissam]

I am getting the same Error, And using the latest version of the aws module.
I have specified the alarm in my hiera in this way:

itaws::cloudwatch_alarm:
cpuutilizationtest:
metric: CPUUtilization
namespace: 'AWS/EC2'
statistic: Average
period: 15
dimensions:
- InstanceId: 'myinstanceid'
evaluation_periods: 3
threshold: 80
comparison_operator: '>='
region: 'eu-west-1'
And I get

Error: Could not run: Puppet detected a problem with the information returned from AWS
when looking up cloudwatch_alarm in eu-west-1. The specific error was:

Malformed policy ARN. Given: arn:aws:sns:eu-west-1:3683598xxxx:xxxxxxx

Rather than report on cloudwatch_alarm resources in an inconsistent state we have exited.
This could be because some other process is modifying AWS at the same time.