Boto3: Get EC2 images owned by me

Question

I would like to get all ami images owned by me. I tried something like below:

ec2 = boto3.resource('ec2')
owner_id = 'owner_id'
filters = [{'Name': 'owner-id', 'Values': [owner_id]}]
images = ec2.images.filter(Filters=filters).all()

But I need to put owner_id explicid in the code. Is it any solution to do that automatically from aws credentials?

You want to get the caller id: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/36709461/get-aws-account-id-from-boto — at0mzk, Oct 24 '16 at 07:46

score 8 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 28 '17 at 22:32

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You should be able to use self for the owner. This is what I use.

boto3conn = boto3.resource("ec2", region_name="us-west-2")
images = boto3conn.images.filter(Owners=['self'])

answered Jun 28 '17 at 22:32

iamguest

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how would you add tags to the filter? – amadib Mar 31 '18 at 16:35

CloudNinja · Answer 2 · 2019-09-26T11:23:33.077

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This will help, It will show you ALL AMI thats owned by your aws account

import boto3

client = boto3.client('ec2', region_name='us-east-1')

response = client.describe_images(Owners=['self'])
for ami in response['Images']:
  print (ami['ImageId'])

edited Sep 26 '19 at 11:23

answered Sep 26 '19 at 10:43

CloudNinja

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While this code may answer the question, providing additional context regarding how and/or why it solves the problem would improve the answer's long-term value.[Read this](https://stackoverflow.com/help/how-to-answer). – Shanteshwar Inde Sep 26 '19 at 11:02

score 2 · Answer 3 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:30

You can use the STS API to get this information.

I found this post talking about it: getting the current user account-id in boto3

So the code you need is:

ec2 = boto3.resource('ec2', region_name='us-east-1')
owner_id = boto3.client('sts').get_caller_identity().get('Account')
filters = [{'Name': 'owner-id', 'Values': [owner_id]}]
images = ec2.images.filter(Filters=filters).all()

Make sure to change the region name to the correct one, or leave it out if you've set it elsewhere in your environment.

Boto3: Get EC2 images owned by me

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