Amazon AMI

wikipedia:Amazon AMI

To obtain image AMI ids:

• aws ec2 describe-images: output
• aws ec2 describe-instances | grep ImageId
• curl http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/ami-id

• aws ec2 describe-images --image-ids

• List of Debian9 Image Id (ami): https://wiki.debian.org/Cloud/AmazonEC2Image/Stretch

• aws ssm get-parameters-by-path --path /aws/service/ami-amazon-linux-latest --query "Parameters[].Name"

• ami-06be4329ed6be1b0e: Amazon Linux AMI 2.0.20221230 x86_64 ECS HVM GP2

AL:

• ami-0be40a4cb4844994c

• Free tier:
  • ami-0443305dabd4be2bc
  • ami-03d5c68bab01f3496 (Ubuntu Oregon)

News

• 03/2022 Amazon reduces visibility of public Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) older than two years

Related terms

• Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI)
• aws ec2 describe-images
• aws ec2 describe-images --owners self amazon
• AMI Aptio V
• Terraform resource: aws_instance and ami argument
• terraform show | grep -i ami
• ubuntu/images/hvm-ssd/ubuntu-xenial-16.04-amd64-server-20200814: ami-08d70e59c07c61a3a
• https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/locator/ec2/
• AWS instance example with aws ami lookup
• Amazon Linux: AL2022, amazon-linux-extras install epel
• Custom AMI
• lsb_release
• aws_eks_node_group: ami_type

See also

• AMI, AFI, aws ec2 describe-images, Amazon Linux, Amazon Linux 2, amazon-linux-extras, AWS CreateImage
• Amazon Linux (r): Amazon Linux 2, Amazon Linux 2023, AMI, amazon-linux-extras, al2022
• Amazon EC2 Instance types, computed optimized, memory optimized, high memory, AMI, Burstable, CPU credits, on-demand, spot, Karpenter, t2, t3, t4g, r5, r6, c5 (c5a, c5ad), c6 (c6a, c6i), m5, m6i, m7i, c7i, c7g, r6g, r6i, G5, G6, x1, aws ec2 describe-instance-types, vCPU, VcpuLimitExceeded, im4gn

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/03/amazon-machine-images-public-visibility-two-years/