Find and remove outdated AMIs in AWS - amazon-web-services

Question

I need to remove a list of outdated Ami's in AWS. But first I require to verifying are there any place still using those Ami's. Is there an efficient way to find it out.

Answer 1

First, you need to define "Outdated AMIs", it can be the creation date or something else. But here is the script that will list Instance ID along with AMI details that used by particular instance in particular region. By default it will look into default region.
#Get list of EC2 instance
echo "Getting EC2"
EC2_LIST=$(aws ec2 describe-instances --query 'Reservations[].Instances[].{InstanceId:InstanceId}' --output text | tr '\n' ' ')
#Get list of AMI used by ec2
echo "Getting AMI"
LIST_AMI_ID=$(aws ec2 describe-instances --query 'Reservations[].Instances[].{ImageId:ImageId,InstanceId:InstanceId}' --output text | tr '\n' ' ')
EC2_LIST_ARRAY=($EC2_LIST)
LIST_AMI_ID_ARRAY=($LIST_AMI_ID)
for index in ${!LIST_AMI_ID_ARRAY[*]}; do
echo "Get details for AMI ${LIST_AMI_ID_ARRAY[$index]}"
#Get details of AMI
AMI_DETAILS=$(aws ec2 describe-images --image-ids ${LIST_AMI_ID_ARRAY[$index]} --query 'Images[].{CreationDate:CreationDate,Tags:Tags[]}')
echo "Instance having ID ${EC2_LIST_ARRAY[$index]} using AMI ID ${LIST_AMI_ID_ARRAY[$index]} Details: $AMI_DETAILS"
done
output
Get details for AMI ami-0219162cf838b3455
Instance having ID i-0ceb0dfa197fd7455 using AMI ID ami-0219162cf838b3455 Details: [
{
"CreationDate": "2019-10-22T05:17:46.000Z",
"Tags": [
{
"Key": "Base_AMI_Name",
"Value": "ubuntu/images/hvm-ssd/ubuntu-bionic-18.04-amd64-server-20191021"
},
{
"Key": "OS_Version",
"Value": "Ubuntu"
},
{
"Key": "Release",
"Value": "Latest"
},
{
"Key": "Name",
"Value": "postgres"
},
{
"Key": "Scope",
"Value": "database"
}
]
}
]
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Answer 2

For what it's worth, I built a small tool for this purpose as well -- a bit of JavaScript wrapped around AWS API calls.
This basically tries to find all the AMIs in use in your account and looks at both AMIs by their age and also the newly introduced deprecated flag:
https://github.com/geoffreywiseman/oldamis
https://www.codiform.com/blog/oldamis/
It's pretty simplistic currently, but I'm willing to entertain feature requests. ;)