For terraform and packer aws providers you could use "get-console-output" since the host key is generated during launch and the fingerprint is written to the co

For terraform and packer aws providers you could use "get-console-output" since the host key is generated during launch and the fingerprint is written to the console http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/ec2/get-console-output.html http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/ec2/get-cons... I think most people launching instances manually or by other means never do this. Edit: I'd love to contribute it but my golang skills are weak, few months ago I contributed something very small. I really love terraform.