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I have needed this for a while but I would have thought someone would have done this by now, yet I have never seen any code that does this. Get the latest AMI. -- In this case we are hard coding everything but, merely change the `parse` and `filters` phrases, and you can grep for the latest on what you want.
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| #!/usr/bin/env python | |
| import boto | |
| import sys | |
| from parse import * | |
| import datetime | |
| ec2 = boto.connect_ec2(debug=0) | |
| image_meta = ec2.get_all_images(filters={'name': 'amzn-ami-hvm-*gp2'}) | |
| date_list = [] | |
| number_images = 0 | |
| while number_images != len(image_meta): | |
| image_name = parse('amzn-ami-hvm-{}.x86_64-gp2', | |
| image_meta[number_images].name)[0] | |
| date_list.append(image_name) | |
| latest_image = sorted(date_list, reverse=True)[0] | |
| number_images += 1 | |
| if latest_image == image_name: | |
| image = image_meta[number_images].id | |
| print image |
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