Aug 2017

An AMI is an Amazon Machine Image. This is a list of Operating Systems that you can have automatically installed when you create an EC2 Instance. See a small AMI list below:


I have not found anywhere that lists all of the available AMIs and their IDs, I can see why because it is a rather long list and AMI numbers change between AZs as well (make note of that, your script will not work in any AZ just by changing the region value, you will need the AMI value for that region as well.)