Neo4j Community Edition AMI failing to deploy on AWS

[stephen3 (Stephen Mc Gowan)]

I'm trying to deploy using CloudFormation from this listing on the AWS Marketplace AWS Marketplace: Neo4j Community Edition

I've used this before (mid-September) and had no issues but for the last week I can't get it to deploy. Each time I try to deploy using CloudFormation the EC2 instance fails to deploy after a timeout, with errors in the EC2 cons (see the pastebin link below).

I've tried to deploy with multiple different instance types (r6i.large, t3.medium) but they all fail with the same error.

Anyone having the same issues? Anyone found a solution?

Pastebin link to console logs

[harshit.singhvi]

@stephen3 i just tried the Neo4j Community Edition on the AWS Marketplace and its working just fine.

[stephen3 (Stephen Mc Gowan)]

How strange! I assume you're using the recommended r6i.large EC2 instance? I'll try again and see if I'm having the same issues.

[harshit.singhvi]

Even with r6i.large it comes up fine

[stephen3 (Stephen Mc Gowan)]

Eventually, I got to the bottom of this after it continued happening, even across regions.

The password I was using/passing into CloudFormation included a '$' character and that broke the deployment. When I remove that character the deployment works fine.

So for future reference, don't use passwords with $ signs in them.