AWS Lambda Function to Delete AMIs and Snapshots

lambdaAMICleanup.py

# Automated AMI and Snapshot Deletion
#
# @author Robert Kozora <bobby@kozora.me>
#
# This script will search for all instances having a tag with "Backup" or "backup"
# on it. As soon as we have the instances list, we loop through each instance
# and reference the AMIs of that instance. We check that the latest daily backup
# succeeded then we store every image that's reached its DeleteOn tag's date for
# deletion. We then loop through the AMIs, deregister them and remove all the
# snapshots associated with that AMI.

import boto3
import collections
import datetime
import time
import sys

ec = boto3.client('ec2', 'us-east-1')
ec2 = boto3.resource('ec2', 'us-east-1')
images = ec2.images.filter(Owners=["xxxxxx"])

def lambda_handler(event, context):

    reservations = ec.describe_instances(
        Filters=[
            {'Name': 'tag-key', 'Values': ['backup', 'Backup']},
        ]
    ).get(
        'Reservations', []
    )

    instances = sum(
        [
            [i for i in r['Instances']]
            for r in reservations
        ], [])

    print "Found %d instances that need evaluated" % len(instances)

    to_tag = collections.defaultdict(list)

    date = datetime.datetime.now()
    date_fmt = date.strftime('%Y-%m-%d')

    imagesList = []

    # Set to true once we confirm we have a backup taken today
    backupSuccess = False

    # Loop through all of our instances with a tag named "Backup"
    for instance in instances:
	imagecount = 0

        # Loop through each image of our current instance
        for image in images:

            # Our other Lambda Function names its AMIs Lambda - i-instancenumber.
            # We now know these images are auto created
            if image.name.startswith('Lambda - ' + instance['InstanceId']):

                # print "FOUND IMAGE " + image.id + " FOR INSTANCE " + instance['InstanceId']

                # Count this image's occcurance
	        imagecount = imagecount + 1

                try:
                    if image.tags is not None:
                        deletion_date = [
                            t.get('Value') for t in image.tags
                            if t['Key'] == 'DeleteOn'][0]
                        delete_date = time.strptime(deletion_date, "%m-%d-%Y")
                except IndexError:
                    deletion_date = False
                    delete_date = False

                today_time = datetime.datetime.now().strftime('%m-%d-%Y')
                # today_fmt = today_time.strftime('%m-%d-%Y')
                today_date = time.strptime(today_time, '%m-%d-%Y')

                # If image's DeleteOn date is less than or equal to today,
                # add this image to our list of images to process later
                if delete_date <= today_date:
                    imagesList.append(image.id)

                # Make sure we have an AMI from today and mark backupSuccess as true
                if image.name.endswith(date_fmt):
                    # Our latest backup from our other Lambda Function succeeded
                    backupSuccess = True
                    print "Latest backup from " + date_fmt + " was a success"

        print "instance " + instance['InstanceId'] + " has " + str(imagecount) + " AMIs"

    print "============="

    print "About to process the following AMIs:"
    print imagesList

    if backupSuccess == True:

        snapshots = ec.describe_snapshots(MaxResults=1000, OwnerIds=['xxxxx'])['Snapshots']

        # loop through list of image IDs
        for image in imagesList:
            print "deregistering image %s" % image
            amiResponse = ec.deregister_image(
                DryRun=False,
                ImageId=image,
            )

            for snapshot in snapshots:
                if snapshot['Description'].find(image) > 0:
                    snap = ec.delete_snapshot(SnapshotId=snapshot['SnapshotId'])
                    print "Deleting snapshot " + snapshot['SnapshotId']
                    print "-------------"

    else:
        print "No current backup found. Termination suspended."

Please help, I'm receiving this error when running a test on the lambda function

Found 53 instances that need evaluated
local variable 'delete_date' referenced before assignment: UnboundLocalError
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/var/task/lambda_function.py", line 82, in lambda_handler
if delete_date <= today_date:
UnboundLocalError: local variable 'delete_date' referenced before assignment