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Find the most recent Ubuntu AMI 16.04 using aws-cli (or any other AMI for that matter)
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#!/bin/sh | |
# Use AWS CLI to get the most recent version of an AMI that | |
# matches certain criteria. Has obvious uses. Made possible via | |
# --query, --output text, and the fact that RFC3339 datetime | |
# fields are easily sortable. | |
export AWS_DEFAULT_REGION=us-east-1 | |
aws ec2 describe-images \ | |
--filters Name=name,Values=ubuntu/images/hvm-ssd/ubuntu-xenial-16.04-amd64* \ | |
--query 'Images[*].[ImageId,CreationDate]' --output text \ | |
| sort -k2 -r \ | |
| head -n1 |
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