Search for latest AWS AMI

get-latest-ami.sh

#!/bin/bash

aws ec2 \
    --region us-east-1 describe-images \
    --filters \
        'Name=architecture,Values=x86_64' \
        'Name=root-device-type,Values=ebs' \
        'Name=state,Values=available' \
        'Name=virtualization-type,Values=hvm' \
        'Name=image-type,Values=machine' \
        'Name=name,Values=amzn-ami-hvm-*gp2' \
    --query 'Images[*].{ImageId:ImageId,Name:Name}' \
    | jq 'map(select(.Name | test("^[^rc]*$"))) | sort_by(.Name) | reverse | .[0].ImageId' -r