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vancluever / amifind.sh
Created January 26, 2016 08:05
Find the most recent Ubuntu AMI using aws-cli (or any other AMI for that matter)
#!/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 \