Functions/Get-CmEc2ImageId.ps1
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.Synopsis Find the latest AWS EC2 AMI based on search critera .DESCRIPTION Outputs only the image ID of the latest AWS EC2 AMI based on option you specficy such as Windows version, SQL verison and SQL Edition or Amazon Linux(2) or Ubuntu Supports Core and Container based AMIS and Windows version 2012 R2, 2016, 1709, 1803, 1809 and 2019 It does this mostly by querying the SSM public paramter store, so the user that is running this must have the AWS PowerShell Module installed and configured as well permission to the ssm:describeparameter action .EXAMPLE PS C:\> (Get-CmEc2ImageId -OsVersion WindowsServer2022 -Region us-east-1).ImageId ami-041114ddee4a98333 Above finds the latest Windows Server 2016 Base AMI in us-east-1 region .EXAMPLE PS C:\> Get-CmEc2ImageId -OsVersion 2019 -Core -Containers -Region us-east-1 ami-0f3d4a916972fd1ac Here we specify we want Windows Server 2019 Core edition with Containers in the us-east-1 region .EXAMPLE PS C:\> New-EC2Instance -Region us-east-1 -Subnet subnet-97654567890 -ImageId (Get-CmEc2ImageId -OsVersion WindowsServer2016 -Region us-east-1).ImageId -KeyPair MyKeyPair This launches an instance in the us-east-1 region getting the latest AMI for Windows Serve 2016 in that region. .OUTPUTS Image (String) .NOTES General notes .COMPONENT The component this cmdlet belongs to .ROLE The role this cmdlet belongs to the CMAWS Module .FUNCTIONALITY The functionality that best describes this cmdlet #> Function Get-CmEc2ImageId { [OutputType([Amazon.EC2.Model.Image])] [CmdletBinding(DefaultParameterSetName = 'Windows')] Param( [Parameter(Position = 0)] #[ValidatePattern('WindowsServer20(16|19|22)|Ubuntu2[0246]\.04|AmazonLinux2(02\d)?')] [ValidateSet( "WindowsServer2025", "WindowsServer2022", "WindowsServer2019", "WindowsServer2016", "Ubuntu24.04", "Ubuntu22.04", "Ubuntu20.04", "AmazonLinux2", "AmazonLinux2023", "AmazonLinux2NetCore" )] [string] $OsVersion = "WindowsServer2025", [ValidateSet("2022","2019", "2017", "2016")] [Parameter(ParameterSetName='SQL')] [string] $SqlVersion, # [Windows Only] Return this Edition of SQL for the selected Windows AMI with SQL [Parameter(ParameterSetName='SQL')] [ValidateSet("Express", "Web", "Standard", "Enterprise")] [string] $SqlEdition = "Standard", # [Windows Only] Return the Core (No GUI) version of the Windows AMI [switch] $Core, [Parameter(ParameterSetName='Containers')] # [Windows Only] Return the Containers version of the Windows AMI [switch] $Containers, # [Windows Only] Return the ECS Optimized version of the Windows VAMI [Parameter(ParameterSetName='Ecs')] [switch] $EcsOptimized, [ValidateScript( { @((Get-AWSRegion).Region) })] [string] $Region, # The CPU Architecture to use. Available values, arm64 or x86_64. [ValidateSet("arm64","x86_64")] [string] $Architecture = "x86_64", # [Windows Only] The Language of Windows Server. [ValidateSet( "Chinese_Traditional", "Chinese_Simplified", "Czech", "Dutch", "English", "French", "German", "Hungarian", "Korean", "Japanese", "Polish", "Portuguese_Brazil", "Russian", "Spanish", "Swedish", "Turkish")] [string] $Language = "English", # Return only the Image Id as a string. [switch] $ImageIdOnly, # The AWS CLI/ SDK Credential Profile to use [string] $ProfileName ) $ErrorActionPreference = "Stop" $GeneralParams = @{} If ($Region) { $GeneralParams.Region = $Region} If ($ProfileName){ $GeneralParams.ProfileName = $ProfileName} If ($OsVersion -like "WindowsServer*") { # Windows Image Logic $WindowsVersion = $OsVersion.Substring(13) if ($Architecture -ne "x86_64") { Write-Error "Windows Server only available on x86_64" } $Base = $True if ($SqlVersion) { If ($Core -and $WindowsVersion -ne 2016 -and $SqlVersion ) { Write-Warning "SQL only avaialable on Core Editions of Windows Server 2016, Switching to Full"; $Core = $False } If ($SqlVersion -eq "2016") { $SqlSp = "_SP3" } $SqlVersion = $SqlVersion.ToUpper() $SqlEdition = $SqlEdition.Substring(0, 1).ToUpper() + $SqlEdition.Substring(1).ToLower() $SqlText = "-SQL_" + $SqlVersion + $SqlSp + "_" + $SqlEdition if ($WindowsVersion -notmatch '201[69]' -and $SqlVersion -match '201[79]') { Write-Warning "SQL Server $SqlVersion only supported on Windows Server 2016 and 2019, switching to Windows 2019" $WindowsVersion = "2019" } if ($WindowsVersion -notmatch '20(19|22)' -and $SqlVersion -EQ '2022') { Write-Warning "SQL Server $SqlVersion only supported on Windows Server 2019 and 2022, switching to Windows 2022" $WindowsVersion = "2022" } if ($WindowsVersion -notmatch '201[69])' -and $SqlVersion -eq "2016") { Write-Warning "SQL Server 2016 only supported on Windows Server 2012 R2, 2016 and 2019, switching to Windows 2019" $WindowsVersion = "2019" } } if ($EcsOptimized -or $SqlVersion -or $Containers) { $Base = $False } $WindowsVersion = $WindowsVersion.ToUpper() $Language = $Language.Substring(0, 1).ToUpper() + $Language.Substring(1).ToLower() $BaseText = "/aws/service/ami-windows-latest/Windows_Server-" if ($WindowsVersion -match '20(16|19|22|25)') { if ($Core) { $SearchString = $BaseText + $WindowsVersion + "-" + $Language + "-Core" } else { $SearchString = $BaseText + $WindowsVersion + "-" + $Language + "-Full" } if ($Base) { $SearchString += "-Base" } elseif ($SqlVersion) { $SearchString += $SqlText} elseif ($Containers) { if ($WindowsVersion -eq '2016') { $SearchString += "-Containers" } if ($WindowsVersion -match '20(19|22|25)') { $SearchString += "-ContainersLatest" } } elseif ($EcsOptimized) { $SearchString += '-ECS_Optimized/image_id' } } } If ($OsVersion -match "^Ubuntu2\d\.04$") { $UbuntuArch = $Architecture if ($Architecture -EQ 'x86_64'){ $UbuntuArch = 'amd64' } $NameFilter = @{ Name = "name" Values = "ubuntu/images/hvm-ssd*/ubuntu-*-$($OsVersion.TrimStart("Ubuntu"))-$UbuntuArch-server-20*" } $OwnerFilter = @{ Name = "owner-alias" Values = "amazon" } $Images = Get-Ec2Image @GeneralParams -Filter $NameFilter, $OwnerFilter } If ($OsVersion -match "^AmazonLinux2(02\d)?$") { $BaseText = "/aws/service/ami-amazon-linux-latest" $ALVersion = $OsVersion.TrimStart('AmazonLinux') if ($ALVersion -eq "2") {$SearchString = "$BaseText/amzn2-ami-hvm-$Architecture-gp2"} elseif ($ALVersion -match "202\d") {$SearchString = "$BaseText/al$ALVersion-ami-kernel-default-$Architecture"} if ($EcsOptimized){ $SearchString = "/aws/service/ecs/optimized-ami/amazon-linux-$ALVersion/" if ($Architecture -EQ "x86_64") { $SearchString += "recommended/image_id" } else { $SearchString += "$Architecture/recommended/image_id" } } } If ($OsVersion -eq "AmazonLinux2NetCore") { $Images = Get-Ec2Image @GeneralParams -Filter @{ Name = "name"; Values = "amzn2-$Architecture-*DOTNET*" } } If ($SearchString) { Try { $ImageId = (Get-SSMParameter @GeneralParams -Name $SearchString ).Value Write-Verbose "Got ImageId $ImageId" } Catch { Write-Error "AMI Not Found with error: $($Error[0])" } } if ($Images) { $Image = $Images | Where-Object Name -NotMatch "beanstalk" | Sort-Object Name | Select-Object -Last 1 } If ($ImageIdOnly) { If ($Image) { return $Image.ImageId } If ($ImageId) { return $ImageId } } If ($Image) { return $Image } If ($ImageId) { return Get-EC2Image @GeneralParams -ImageId $ImageId } } |