From 0fc8b2cdcfd826515b1c0795eee54f31ec5d3241 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: cmp Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2017 15:52:47 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Cleared up aws_key_pair requirements and purpose (#11647) This makes it much more directly obvious what `aws_key_pair` does by saying the user *does* provide the key-pair of some kind and that all `aws_key_pair` does is register that public key with an optional name in AWS. --- website/source/docs/providers/aws/r/key_pair.html.markdown | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/website/source/docs/providers/aws/r/key_pair.html.markdown b/website/source/docs/providers/aws/r/key_pair.html.markdown index 154615e14..acb49999e 100644 --- a/website/source/docs/providers/aws/r/key_pair.html.markdown +++ b/website/source/docs/providers/aws/r/key_pair.html.markdown @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ description: |- Provides an [EC2 key pair](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ec2-key-pairs.html) resource. A key pair is used to control login access to EC2 instances. -Currently this resource only supports importing a user-supplied key pair, not the creation of a new key pair. +Currently this resource requires an existing user-supplied key pair. This key pair's public key will be registered with AWS to allow logging-in to EC2 instances. When importing an existing key pair the public key material may be in any format supported by AWS. Supported formats (per the [AWS documentation](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ec2-key-pairs.html#how-to-generate-your-own-key-and-import-it-to-aws)) are: