aws ec2 describe-images

aws ec2 describe-images : output Describes the specified images (AMIs, AKIs, and ARIs) available to you or all of the images available to you.

Examples

• aws ec2 describe-images (awscli)
• aws ec2 describe-images --owners self
• aws ec2 describe-images --owners amazon
• aws ec2 describe-images --owners ubuntu
• aws ec2 describe-images --owners 099720109477 (Canonical)
• aws ec2 describe-images --owners self amazon
• aws ec2 describe-images --image-ids ami-2234234234234

aws ec2 describe-images --filters "Name=name,Values=ubuntu/images/hvm-ssd/ubuntu-*23.04*amd64*" --query "sort_by(Images, &CreationDate)[-1].[Name, ImageId]" --owners 099720109477

aws ec2 describe-images --filters "Name=name,Values=ubuntu/images/hvm-ssd/ubuntu-lunar*" --query "sort_by(Images, &CreationDate)[-1].[Name, ImageId]" --owners 099720109477

aws ec2 describe-images --filters "Name=name,Values=ubuntu/images/hvm-ssd/ubuntu-bionic*" --query "sort_by(Images, &CreationDate)[-1].[Name, ImageId]" --owners 099720109477

aws ec2 describe-images | grep ImageId  | wc -l
62215

aws ec2 describe-images | grep "Amazon Linux 2023 AMI" | wc -l
20

aws ec2 describe-images \
    --image-id ami-5256b825 \
    --query "Images[*].Description[]" \
    --output text \
    --region eu-west-1

Related terms

• Amazon AMI
• aws ec2 describe-instance-types
• Terraform data source: aws_ami

See also

• aws_ami, aws ec2 describe-images, AMI ARM, aws_instance, data.aws_ami.ubuntu.id
• AWS, AMI, AFI, aws ec2 describe-images, Amazon Linux, Amazon Linux 2, amazon-linux-extras, AWS CreateImage

https://awscli.amazonaws.com/v2/documentation/api/latest/reference/ec2/describe-images.html