Script to grab latest Amazon Linux AMI's to include in cloudformation templates.

get_amis.sh

!/bin/bash

# runs through each region and grabs the latest Amazon Linux AMI to be used for standard EC2 Instances.
# use this to make sure the right AMI ID's are in the cloudformation templates.

tabs 4

echo -e "\tAWSRegionToAMI:"

for region in `aws ec2 describe-regions --output text | cut -f3`
do
        ami=`aws ec2 describe-images --region $region --owners amazon --filters 'Name=name,Values=amzn-ami-hvm*x86_64-gp2'     'Name=state,Values=available' | jq -r '.Images | sort_by(.CreationDate) | last(.[]) | .ImageId'`
        echo -e "\t\t$region:\n\t\t\tAMIID: $ami"
done