Searching Amazon AMIs for the latest images for Ubuntu 16.04

gistfile1.sh

# HVM EBS-SSD
aws ec2 describe-regions --output text --query 'Regions[*].[RegionName]' --region us-east-1 | while read region; do echo -e "$region "; aws --region $region ec2 describe-images --owners 099720109477 --filters Name=root-device-type,Values=ebs Name=architecture,Values=x86_64 Name=name,Values='*hvm-ssd/ubuntu-xenial-16.04*' --query 'sort_by(Images, &Name)[-1].ImageLocation'; done;

# HVM Instance-store
aws ec2 describe-regions --output text --query 'Regions[*].[RegionName]' --region us-east-1 | while read region; do echo -e "$region "; aws --region $region ec2 describe-images --owners 099720109477 --filters Name=root-device-type,Values=instance-store Name=architecture,Values=x86_64 Name=name,Values='*hvm-instance/ubuntu-xenial-16.04*' --query 'sort_by(Images, &Name)[-1].ImageLocation'; done;

# PV EBS-SSD
aws ec2 describe-regions --output text --query 'Regions[*].[RegionName]' --region us-east-1 | while read region; do echo -e "$region "; aws --region $region ec2 describe-images --owners 099720109477 --filters Name=root-device-type,Values=ebs Name=architecture,Values=x86_64 Name=name,Values='*ebs-ssd/ubuntu-xenial-16.04*' --query 'sort_by(Images, &Name)[-1].ImageLocation'; done;

# PV Instance-store
aws ec2 describe-regions --output text --query 'Regions[*].[RegionName]' --region us-east-1 | while read region; do echo -e "$region "; aws --region $region ec2 describe-images --owners 099720109477 --filters Name=root-device-type,Values=instance-store Name=architecture,Values=x86_64 Name=name,Values='*images/ubuntu-xenial-16.04*' --query 'sort_by(Images, &Name)[-1].ImageLocation'; done;