AWS CLI Get AMI ID

If you are a developer who uses the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud services, you may need to find the ID of the Amazon Machine Image (AMI) that you want to use. In this tutorial, we'll show you how to use the AWS CLI to get the ID of an AMI.

Prerequisites

• AWS CLI
• An AWS account
• IAM user credentials with permission to use the AWS CLI

Steps to Get AMI ID

1. Open a terminal window.

2. Install the AWS CLI if you haven't already. You can install it using the following command:

   pip install awscli --upgrade --user
   

3. Configure the AWS CLI with your IAM user credentials. You can use the following command to configure the CLI:

   aws configure
   

4. Run the following command to get the ID of an AMI:

   aws ec2 describe-images --owners amazon --filters "Name=name,Values=amzn2-ami-hvm-2.0.????????.?-x86_64-gp2" --query 'Images[*].[ImageId]' --output text | sort -k1r | head -n 1
   

   Here, we are using the describe-images command to get information about AMIs. The --owners parameter specifies that we want to filter AMIs that are owned by Amazon. The --filters parameter specifies that we want to filter AMIs based on their name, which includes the version number. The --query parameter specifies that we want to return only the ImageId value. The --output parameter specifies that we want the output in text format.

5. The command will return the ID of the latest version of the AMI that matches the specified name filter.

Conclusion

In this tutorial, we showed you how to use the AWS CLI to get the ID of an AMI. This skill is helpful in order to launch new EC2 instances, create new images, and more. With this knowledge, you can easily use the AWS CLI to manage your AWS instances more effectively.