From 8c7908eb4a01d388576beb2ed14471a2eee4d595 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Zhanghao Wu <zhanghao.wu@outlook.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2024 22:24:47 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Remove aws internal tags

---
 sky/provision/aws/instance.py | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/sky/provision/aws/instance.py b/sky/provision/aws/instance.py
index 664439dfe88..8bf94c595b0 100644
--- a/sky/provision/aws/instance.py
+++ b/sky/provision/aws/instance.py
@@ -324,9 +324,13 @@ def _create_node_tag(target_instance, is_head: bool = True) -> str:
                 'Key': 'Name',
                 'Value': f'sky-{cluster_name_on_cloud}-worker'
             })
+        # Remove AWS internal tags, as they are not allowed to be set by users.
+        target_instance_tags = [
+            tag for tag in target_instance.tags if not tag['Key'].startswith('aws:')
+        ]
         ec2.meta.client.create_tags(
             Resources=[target_instance.id],
-            Tags=target_instance.tags + node_tag,
+            Tags=target_instance_tags + node_tag,
         )
         return target_instance.id