1b- AWS AMI or Amazon Machine Image
1- find ami id using aws cli ( use bash, use aws credentials and then use the long command )
2- or browse the various website
powershell or cmd windows 10 | aws ec2 describe-images --owners 'aws-marketplace' --filters 'Name=product-code,Values=4ka3ipaoo0u105imvgdsryu05' --query 'sort_by(Images, &CreationDate)[-1].[ImageId]' --output 'text' --region us-west-2 --no-verify RESPONSE: ami-047df409d805388cd aws ec2 describe-images --owners 'aws-marketplace' --filters 'Name=product-code,Values=4ka3ipaoo0u105imvgdsryu05' --query 'sort_by(Images, &CreationDate)[-1].[ImageId]' --output 'text' --region us-west-2 --no-verify |
windows bash shell |
vSRX on AWS | |
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18.4 | ami-0cf5905679d7747fd ( Oregon / US-WEST-2 ) ami-0053111d7a7e064f2 ( London / EU-west-2 ) |
15.1 | ami-f4958c90 ( London / EU-west-2 ) |
vMX on AWS | |
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18.4 | ami- ( US-WEST-2 / Oregon ) |
Market Place for AMI: https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/
paravirtual (PV) or hardware virtual machine (HVM).
The main differences between PV and HVM AMIs are the way in which they boot and whether they can take advantage of special hardware extensions (CPU, network, and storage) for better performance.
For the best performance: current generation instance types and HVM AMIs
EBS: Elastic Block Store provides raw block-level storage that can be attached to Amazon EC2 instances.
solid-state drives (SSDs) Vs HDD
Amazon EC2 Instance Types
https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/
Centos AWS ami: https://wiki.centos.org/Cloud/AWS
Click on the link "CentOS-7 X86_64
used by Contrail 5.0 ( ami-337be65c/eu-central-1 or ami-a042f4d8/us-west-2 )
Click on "Continue and Subscribe" to find the ami-id
Ubuntu Locator of ami : https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/locator/ec2/
>>> filter by: Version , type: ebs-ssd , Arch= amd64, Zone
Ubuntu 18 TLS:
ami-9baf43fc in EU-WEST-2 / London
ami-d27709aa US-WEST-2 / Oregon ( newest ami-005bdb005fb00e791 )
ami-05f39e7b7f153bc6a us-east-2 / Ohio