AWS Amazon EC2 Mac : find macOS AMI IDs

shell.sh

# list all the AMIs for a major macOS version
REGION=us-east-1
MACOS_VERSION=14  
aws ec2 describe-images \
    --region $REGION \
    --filters Name=name,Values="amzn-ec2-macos-$MACOS_VERSION*" \
    --owners amazon  \
    --query 'Images[*].[Architecture,Description,ImageId]' \
    --output text 
    
# list the most recent AMI for a major macOS version.
 aws ec2 describe-images \
  --region $REGION \
  --filters "Name=architecture,Values=arm64_mac" "Name=name,Values=amzn-ec2-macos-$MACOS_VERSION.*-arm64" \
  --owners amazon \
  --query 'sort_by(Images, &CreationDate)[-1].[ImageId]' \
  --output text