kitchen-ec2 not picking the image-id provided to while spinning the instance its taking some default image

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kitchen ec2 not picking the image-id that has been provided in the kitchen.yml. It is picking some default image to spin the instance.
On further debugging I found that config[:image_id] is coming nil here

kitchen-ec2/lib/kitchen/driver/ec2.rb

Line 307 in 2c93417

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@Vasu1105 can you provide an example kitchen.yml ?

@deric4 here is the one.

driver:
  name: ec2
  shared_credentials_profile: xxxxx
  region: us-west-2
  # This security group is in the Chef Partner account
  # TODO: Make the account used for testing configurable
  security_group_ids: ['sg-xxxxxf']
  interface: dns
  associate_public_ip: true
  aws_ssh_key_id: xxxxxx
  block_device_mappings:
  - device_name: /dev/sda1
    ebs:
      volume_size: 30
      delete_on_termination: false

transport:
  ssh_key: ~/.ssh/xxxxx.pem

provisioner:
  name: chef_zero
  deprecations_as_errors: false
  chef_license: accept

verifier:
  name: inspec
  sudo: true
  reporter:
    - cli
    - json:.kitchen/logs/%{platform}_%{suite}_inspec.json

platforms:
  - name: windows-2019
    transport:
      name: winrm
      elevated: true
    driver:
      retryable_tries: 240
      image-id: ami-0300fe0852e0add56
      instance_type: t3.large
      tags:
        Name: compliance_profiles_windows_2019
        created-by: test-kitchen

suites:
  - name: windows2019_memberserver_v1.1.0
    named_run_list: kitchen_remediation_windows_2019
    includes:
      - windows-2019
    verifier:
      inspec_tests:
        - path: test/integration/default/inspec/cis-windows2019-level2-memberserver-v1.1.0

I think you just need to change the - to _ like so:

  image_id: ami-0300fe0852e0add56

Thanks. @deric4 closing this.