Filtering AMI by name using aws-cli

Question

Is there a way to filter public AMIs that contain a particular string (say abcd)?

The command:

aws ec2 describe-images --filters Name=name,Values=abcd

returns only those AMIs that exactly match Name=abcd

score 15 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 22 '16 at 20:05

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From Listing and Filtering Using the CLI and API:

You can also use wildcards with the filter values. An asterisk (*) matches zero or more characters, and a question mark (?) matches exactly one character.

List any RHEL 7.x HVM GA images

aws ec2 describe-images --filters Name=name,Values=RHEL-7.?_HVM_GA*

answered Nov 22 '16 at 20:05

jscott

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Note: It must be `Name=name` and not `Name=Name` as this answer states; which is odd since if you run a `describe-images` it seems like it would be the other way around. – TJ Biddle Jul 09 '18 at 18:21

Filtering AMI by name using aws-cli

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