Skip to content

Instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

@vancluever

vancluever/amifind.sh

Created January 26, 2016 08:05
Download ZIP

Revisions

  1. vancluever created this gist Jan 26, 2016.
    14 changes: 14 additions & 0 deletions amifind.sh
    View file
    Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
    @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
    #!/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 \
    --filters Name=name,Values=ubuntu/images/hvm-ssd/ubuntu-trusty-14.04-amd64* \
    --query 'Images[*].[ImageId,CreationDate]' --output text \
    | sort -k2 -r \
    | head -n1