July 2017
Intermediate to advanced
402 pages
9h 38m
English
An Amazon Machine Image (AMI) is a package that contains, among other things, the root filesystem with the OS (for example, Linux, Unix, or Windows) and additional software required to start up the system. To find the proper AMI, we will use aws ec2 describe-images. By default, the describe-images command will list all the public AMIs available which is way over 3 million by now. To get the best out of that command, it is important to combine it with the filter option to include the only AMI we would like to use. In our case, we want to use the following to filter out our AMI:
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