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
aws find ami id
bash

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

vSRX on AWS
18.4

ami-0cf5905679d7747fd ( Oregon / US-WEST-2 )

ami-0053111d7a7e064f2  ( London / EU-west-2 )


15.1ami-f4958c90 ( London / EU-west-2 )




vMX on AWS
18.4ami- ( 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