Get the lastest Amazon Linux AMI

Get-AmazonLinuxAMIId.ps1

#will return the latest Amazon Linux AMI IDs using EBS for the listed regions
$regions = "eu-west-1","eu-west-2","eu-central-1" 

foreach($region in $regions){ 

  $ami = Get-EC2Image -Region $region | 
  Where-Object {$_.imageowneralias -eq "amazon" -and $_.virtualizationtype -eq "hvm" -and $_.name -like "*amzn-ami-hvm*" -and $_.rootdevicetype -eq "ebs"} |  
  Sort-Object -Property creationdate -Descending | 
  Select-Object -Property imageid -First 1 
  $output = "$region = " + $ami.ImageId 

Write-Output $output  

}