If I need to get list of AMI image ids (Ex: "ami-0ff8a91507f77f867") for Amazon Linux 2 AMI (HVM), SSD Volume Type
Is there a CLI command I can run (prefered) or is it documented some where?
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The AWS managed list of current AMIs for Amazon Linux can be obtained using aws cli and querying public AWS SSM Parameters:
The cool thing is that these values can be referenced in CloudFormation templates, so there is no need to hard-code the AMI ids.
Having the latest AMI ids, one can also use describe-images AWS CLI command to get more details about them, or filter out those which exhibit properties of interest to you (e.g. Volume Type).
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