Get AWS AMI Image IDs for Ubuntu

get-aws-ubuntu-image-ids.php

<?php

$supportedRegions = [
    'ap-east-1',
    'ap-northeast-1',
    'ap-northeast-2',
    'ap-northeast-3',
    'ap-south-1',
    'ap-south-2',
    'ap-southeast-1',
    'ap-southeast-2',
    'ap-southeast-3',
    'ap-southeast-4',
    'ca-central-1',
    'cn-north-1',
    'cn-northwest-1',
    'eu-central-1',
    'eu-central-2',
    'eu-north-1',
    'eu-south-1',
    'eu-south-2',
    'eu-west-1',
    'eu-west-2',
    'eu-west-3',
    'il-central-1',
    'me-central-1',
    'me-south-1',
    'sa-east-1',
    'us-east-1',
    'us-east-2',
    'us-west-1',
    'us-west-2',
];

$url = 'https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/locator/ec2/releasesTable';

// Initialize a cURL session
$ch = curl_init();

// Set cURL options
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false); // This is used for HTTPS requests, if necessary
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 30);

// Execute cURL session and get the response
$response = curl_exec($ch);

// Check for cURL errors
if (curl_errno($ch)) {
    exit('Curl error: '.curl_error($ch));
}

// Close cURL session
curl_close($ch);

// Decode JSON response
$data = json_decode($response, true);

// Check if the 'aaData' key exists
if (! isset($data['aaData'])) {
    exit('Invalid data received');
}

// Initialize an array to store the results
$regions = [];

foreach ($data['aaData'] as $item) {
    $region = $item[0];
    $description = $item[1];
    $release = $item[2];
    $architecture = $item[3];
    $amiLinkHtml = $item[6];

    // Continue only if the region is supported
    if (! in_array($region, $supportedRegions)) {
        continue;
    }

    // Continue only if architecture includes 'amd64'
    if (! str_contains($architecture, 'amd64')) {
        continue;
    }

    // Parse the AMI ID from HTML link
    preg_match('/ami-[a-z0-9]+/', $amiLinkHtml, $matches);
    if (empty($matches)) {
        continue;
    }

    $amiId = $matches[0];

    // Filter for Ubuntu 20, 22, 24
    if (str_contains($release, '20.04')) {
        $versionKey = 'ubuntu_20';
    } elseif (str_contains($release, '22.04')) {
        $versionKey = 'ubuntu_22';
    } elseif (str_contains($release, '24.04')) {
        $versionKey = 'ubuntu_24';
    } else {
        continue; // Skip other versions
    }

    // Fill the regions array appropriately
    if (! isset($regions[$region])) {
        $regions[$region] = [];
    }
    $regions[$region][$versionKey] = $amiId;
}

// Print the resultant array
var_export($regions);