Retrieving Amazon EKS optimized Amazon Linux AMI IDs - Amazon EKS
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Retrieving Amazon EKS optimized Amazon Linux AMI IDs

You can programmatically retrieve the Amazon Machine Image (AMI) ID for Amazon EKS optimized AMIs by querying the Amazon Systems Manager Parameter Store API. This parameter eliminates the need for you to manually look up Amazon EKS optimized AMI IDs. For more information about the Systems Manager Parameter Store API, see GetParameter. The IAM principal that you use must have the ssm:GetParameter IAM permission to retrieve the Amazon EKS optimized AMI metadata.

You can retrieve the AMI ID with the Amazon CLI or the Amazon Web Services Management Console.

  • Amazon CLI – You can retrieve the image ID of the latest recommended Amazon EKS optimized Amazon Linux AMI with the following command by using the sub-parameter image_id. Replace 1.25 with a supported version. Replace region-code with the Amazon Web Services Region that your cluster is in. Replace amazon-linux-2 with amazon-linux-2-gpu to see the accelerated AMI ID and amazon-linux-2-arm64 to see the Arm ID.

    aws ssm get-parameter --name /aws/service/eks/optimized-ami/1.25/amazon-linux-2/recommended/image_id --region region-code --query "Parameter.Value" --output text

    The example output is as follows.

    ami-1234567890abcdef0

  • Amazon Web Services Management Console – You can query for the recommended Amazon EKS optimized AMI ID using a URL. The URL opens the Amazon EC2 Systems Manager console with the value of the ID for the parameter. In the following URL, replace 1.25 with a supported version and region-code with an Amazon EKS supported Region for which you want the AMI ID. Replace amazon-linux-2 with amazon-linux-2-gpu to see the accelerated AMI ID and amazon-linux-2-arm64 to see the Arm ID.

    https://console.amazonaws.cn/systems-manager/parameters/aws/service/eks/optimized-ami/1.25/amazon-linux-2/recommended/image_id/description?region=region-code