I am trying to run an Inspec profile locally and running into the AWS resource pack deprecation error.

[srishtirox]

inspec exec .\rdstest.rb -t aws://
[2024-01-23T06:24:29+00:00] ERROR: DEPRECATION: AWS resources in core InSpec are deprecated and have been removed in InSpec 5. They are now part of a resource pack. Please update your profiles to depend on git@github.com:inspec/inspec-aws.git . Resource 'aws_rds_instance' (used at ./rdstest.rb:4)

My Inspec profile does already depend on the inspec-aws resource pack:

name: test_aws
title: AWS InSpec Profile
maintainer: The Authors
copyright: The Authors
copyright_email: you@example.com
license: Apache-2.0
summary: An InSpec Compliance Profile For AWS
version: 0.1.0
inspec_version: '~> 5'
inputs:

• name: aws_vpc_id
  required: false

  Below is deliberately left as a default empty string to allow the profile to run when this is not provided.

  # Please see the README for more details.
  value: ''
  description: 'Optional Custom AWS VPC Id'
  depends:
  • name: inspec-aws
    git: git@github.com:inspec/inspec-aws.git
    supports:
  • platform: aws

PS C:\Users\Administrator\test_aws\controls> inspec exec .\rdstest.rb -t aws:// --log-level=debug
[2024-01-23T06:38:49+00:00] DEBUG: Option backend_cache is enabled
[2024-01-23T06:38:49+00:00] DEBUG: Resolve .\rdstest.rb into cache C:/home/.inspec/cache
[2024-01-23T06:38:49+00:00] DEBUG: Dependency does not exist in the cache .\rdstest.rb
[2024-01-23T06:38:49+00:00] DEBUG: Starting run with targets: ["Inspec::Profile<tests from ..rdstest.rb>"]
[2024-01-23T06:38:49+00:00] DEBUG: Loading ./rdstest.rb into #Inspec::ProfileContext:0x00000278e568a000
[2024-01-23T06:38:49+00:00] ERROR: DEPRECATION: AWS resources in core InSpec are deprecated and have been removed in InSpec 5. They are now part of a resource pack. Please update your profiles to depend on git@github.com:inspec/inspec-aws.git . Resource 'aws_rds_instance' (used at ./rdstest.rb:4)

[clintoncwolfe]

I'd make the following suggestions:

• clear your inspec.lock . InSpec caches its dependency resolution.
• could you post the contents of rdstest.rb ? That determines what is actually happening.

[srishtirox]

Downloaded the inspec-aws locally :

`PS C:\Users\Administrator\test_aws> ls

d---- 1/23/2024 6:23 AM controls
d---- 1/23/2024 5:51 PM inspec-aws
-a--- 1/23/2024 6:22 AM 96 inputs.yml
-a--- 1/23/2024 6:04 PM 608 inspec.yml
-a--- 1/23/2024 6:22 AM 9453 README.md`

Also updated the path in inspec.yml :

`name: test_aws
title: AWS InSpec Profile
maintainer: The Authors
copyright: The Authors
copyright_email: you@example.com
license: Apache-2.0
summary: An InSpec Compliance Profile For AWS
version: 0.1.0
inspec_version: '~> 5'
inputs:

• name: aws_vpc_id
  required: false
  value: ''
  description: 'Optional Custom AWS VPC Id'
  depends:

  • name: inspec-aws
    path: C:\Users\Administrator\test_aws
    supports:
  • platform: aws`

  test control file :

  control 'aws-rds-01' do impact 1.0 title 'Check RDS instance existence' describe aws_rds_instance(db_instance_identifier: 'my_instance_id') do its ('db_instance_class') { should eq 'db.r6i.xlarge' } end end

Version :

PS C:\Users\Administrator\test_aws> inspec --version 5.22.36

Same error :

[2024-01-23T18:06:22+00:00] ERROR: DEPRECATION: AWS resources in core InSpec are deprecated and have been removed in InSpec 5. They are now part of a resource pack. Please update your profiles to depend on git@github.com:inspec/inspec-aws.git . Resource 'aws_rds_instance' (used at ./controls/rdstest.rb:4)