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Query AWS for specific Ubuntu image (AMI-ID), can be run against any region
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query-images.sh
#! /bin/bash
# get Ubuntu 16.04 AMI for default region
aws ec2 describe-images --filters Name=name,Values=ubuntu/images/hvm-ssd/ubuntu-xenial-16.04-amd64-server-20170221 | jq -r '.Images[].ImageId'
# get same image AMI for ca-central-1
aws --region ca-central-1 ec2 describe-images --filters Name=name,Values=ubuntu/images/hvm-ssd/ubuntu-xenial-16.04-amd64-server-20170221 | jq -r '.Images[].ImageId'
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