BASH SCRIPT: Queries AWS for the *latest* AMI images per global region, writes them to a file, and then reads that file back to us.

gather-latest-aws-boot-image-files-[AMI]-per-region.sh

#!/bin/bash

# This queries AWS for the *latest* AMI images per global region, writes them to a file, and then reads that file back to us.

for REGION in $(aws ec2 describe-regions --query "Regions[].RegionName" --output json | jq -r '.[]');
do
echo "$region = $(aws ec2 describe-images --owners amazon \
--filters 'Name=name,Values=amzn-ami-hvm-????.??.?.x86_64-gp2'\
--query 'sort_by(Images, &CreationDate) | [-1].ImageId' --region $REGION)";
 done > ~/aws-latest-images-per-region.txt

cat ~/aws-latest-images-per-region.txt