An AMI is a package that contains, among other things, the root file system with the operating system (for example, Linux, UNIX, or Windows) as well as additional software required to start up the system. To find the proper AMI, we will use the aws ec2 describe-images command. By default, the describe-images command will list all available public AMIs, which is way over 3 million by now. To get the best out of that command, it is important to combine it with the filter option to only include the AMI we would like to use. In our case, we want to use the following to filter our AMIs:
- We want the name to be Amazon Linux AMI, which designates the Linux distribution officially supported by AWS. Amazon Linux is based ...
