reverting b/c symbolic link doesn't work :-|

playbooks/infrastructure/aws_provision_vm.yml

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+- name: Create AWS resources
+  hosts: localhost
+  connection: local
+  gather_facts: False
+
+  collections:
+    - amazon.aws
+
+  tasks:
+
+  - name: Setting the correct AMI per us-east-1
+    set_fact:
+      ami_id: ami-096fda3c22c1c990a
+    when: aws_region == "us-east-1"   
+
+  - name: Setting the correct AMI per us-east-1
+    set_fact:
+      ami_id: ami-09d9c5cdcfb8fc655
+    when: aws_region == "us-west-1" 
+
+  - name: create a new ec2 key pair
+    ec2_key:
+      name: "{{ keypair }}"
+      region: "{{ aws_region }}"
+
+  - name: Create VPC 
+    ec2_vpc_net:
+      name: "{{ vpc_name }}"
+      cidr_block: 10.10.0.0/16
+      region: "{{ aws_region }}" 
+    register: my_vpc  
+
+  - name: Create a security group
+    ec2_group:
+      name: ansible
+      description: "Ansible Security Group"
+      region: "{{ aws_region }}"
+      vpc_id: "{{ my_vpc.vpc.id }}"
+      rules:
+        - proto: all
+          cidr_ip: 10.10.0.0/16
+        - proto: all
+          group_name: ansible
+      rules_egress:
+        - proto: all
+          cidr_ip: 0.0.0.0/0
+    register: firewall
+
+  - name: Create an EC2 instance
+    ec2_instance:
+      key_name: "{{ keypair }}"
+      region: "{{ aws_region }}"
+      security_group: "{{ firewall.group_id }}"
+      instance_type: "{{ instance_type }}"
+      image_id: "{{ ami_id }}"
+      wait: yes
+      name: "{{ instance_name }}"
+    register: ec2