Packer unable to validate amazon checksums

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Overview of the Issue

When running packer init on a new project, the downloaded amazon plugin has failing checksums:

Failed getting the "github.com/hashicorp/amazon" plugin:
8 errors occurred:
* Checksums (*sha256.digest) did not match.
Expected: e053ec24ca9b1a57cfba57c09affb485c0ab14ddc99b4d8ef3fc849c77215065
Got : 53c7386c7533b138af6509c5cb57d460c56016bd89a42bdeecd11a77227e62ba
. Is the checksum file correct ? Is the binary file correct ?
* Checksums (*sha256.digest) did not match.
Expected: d24877bb71963bdf604b56174c7e5b28fdd9ac36a6a05ef269fe2d172840d7df
Got : 3e866dc3eef6a12f9221143c6a6547e94baca9c63511fcf588ee00dad3b20c9c
. Is the checksum file correct ? Is the binary file correct ?
* Checksums (*sha256.digest) did not match.
Expected: 693882ad2c0b242397057a78b2946c0dd3aab47ea8c3d7e931d84a6b824f4bc5
Got : 2993e2b13b900391b1d977d8b2f302d08661b7f10399bd84733649c06222a426
. Is the checksum file correct ? Is the binary file correct ?
* Checksums (*sha256.digest) did not match.
Expected: 90acb7733c737ef2169bc762a8f45b2665cad939e5d606a510258810a61496ab
Got : d051a0bacc8aabf8e05f8025067c45c0de473592cbecb1567a43c6805a692b91
. Is the checksum file correct ? Is the binary file correct ?
* Checksums (*sha256.digest) did not match.
Expected: 3fd30d5dcde4a9fd9b5aa6bd331fb6961fb2ef863e3b6429d58f2908af2693ab
Got : 4dc4e7c67a479b8400706029f092a8e764dded46307331f52af373f60665d96d
. Is the checksum file correct ? Is the binary file correct ?
* Checksums (*sha256.digest) did not match.
Expected: befcb554fa7ac0e8acbcf6131977cc08068b071f7cfefcb29670a3958d4a7d7c
Got : d45ea7038ff29f34697aca0790597c03344619d97df475c1c6c619ccf08a5991
. Is the checksum file correct ? Is the binary file correct ?
* Checksums (*sha256.digest) did not match.
Expected: a665e6fa74d2b1632bbcedd501abd06f2c07959551d67623f7af667574307f62
Got : 1ff8e1b71dd9b06edcc9548bb5fa52feeee323c4763b2e29b787b8bba48a8f33
. Is the checksum file correct ? Is the binary file correct ?
* could not install any compatible version of plugin "github.com/hashicorp/amazon"

Reproduction Steps

Install a clean version of packer on OS X

Following the documentation here:
https://developer.hashicorp.com/packer/tutorials/aws-get-started/aws-get-started-build-image

Observe the issue when running:

packer init

Packer version

From packer version

❯ packer --version
Packer v1.11.2

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Operating system and Environment details

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Mac OS X 14.6.1 (23G93)

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