EC2-DESCRIBE-IMAGES(1)

📦 version 1.6.14.1, in ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble

💖 EC2-DESCRIBE-IMAGES 💖

okay bestie, gather round, because this one is literally from the User Commands corner of the manual and it's about to spill all the tea on your AMIs 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

ec2-describe-images — describe a registered image 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

ec2dim ([ec2-describe-images])
ec2dim [GENERAL OPTIONS] [AMI [...]] [-a] [-o OWNER [...]] [-x USER [...]]

🎀 GENERAL NOTES 🎀

ok so lowkey the most iconic little rule here: any command option/parameter may be passed a value of - to indicate that values for that option should be read from stdin. yes bestie, - is the "read it from stdin pls" vibe. ✨

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

List and describe registered AMIs, plus the AMIs you have launch permissions for. it's giving inventory era 💜

The AMI parameters, if you specify them, are the AMIs to describe.

And here's the math class moment: the result set of AMIs described are the intersection of the AMIs specified, the AMIs owned by the owners specified, and the AMIs with launch permissions as specified by the executable by options. intersection, not union, bestie — do not come for me. 🧚

👑 GENERAL OPTIONS 👑

  • -O, --aws-access-key KEY — AWS Access Key ID. Defaults to the value of the AWS_ACCESS_KEY environment variable (if set). 🔑
  • -W, --aws-secret-key KEY — AWS Secret Access Key. Defaults to the value of the AWS_SECRET_KEY environment variable (if set). 🤫
  • -T, --security-token TOKEN — AWS delegation token. Defaults to the value of the AWS_DELEGATION_TOKEN environment variable (if set).
  • -K, --private-key KEY — [DEPRECATED] Specify KEY as the private key to use. Defaults to the value of the EC2_PRIVATE_KEY environment variable (if set). Overrides the default. 💀 (yes girl, deprecated, we don't stan anymore)
  • -C, --cert CERT — [DEPRECATED] Specify CERT as the X509 certificate to use. Defaults to the value of the EC2_CERT environment variable (if set). Overrides the default. 💀
  • -U, --url URL — Specify URL as the web service URL to use. Defaults to the value of https://ec2.amazonaws.com (us-east-1) or to that of the EC2_URL environment variable (if set). Overrides the default. 🌈
  • --region REGION — Specify REGION as the web service region to use. This option will override the URL specified by the -U URL option and the EC2_URL environment variable. This option defaults to the region specified by the EC2_URL environment variable, or us-east-1 if this environment variable is not set. 🌍
  • -D, --auth-dry-run — Check if you can perform the requested action rather than actually performing it. it's the "pretend, don't commit" option, we love a test run 🙈
  • -v, --verbose — Verbose output. she talks a LOT. 🗣️
  • -?, --help — Display this help.
  • -H, --headers — Display column headers.
  • --debug — Display additional debugging information. 🐛
  • --show-empty-fields — Indicate empty fields.
  • --hide-tags — Do not display tags for tagged resources. 🙈
  • --connection-timeout TIMEOUT — Specify a connection timeout TIMEOUT (in seconds). ⏳
  • --request-timeout TIMEOUT — Specify a request timeout TIMEOUT (in seconds). ⏳

💅 SPECIFIC OPTIONS 💅

  • -a, --all — Describe all AMIs, public, private or owned, that the user has access to. the everything bagel of AMIs 🥯✨
  • -o, --owner OWNER — Only AMIs owned by the users specified are described. OWNER may either be a user's account id for images owned by that user, self for images owned by you, amazon for images owned by Amazon, and aws-marketplace for images from the AWS Marketplace. 👑
  • -x, --executable-by USER — Only AMIs with launch permissions as specified are described. USER may either be a user's account id for AMIs owned by you for which the user has explicit launch permissions, self for AMIs you have explicit launch permissions for, or all for AMIs with public launch permissions. 🎟️
  • -F, --filter FILTER — Add a filter criterion for the result-set. narrowing the vibe check, one filter at a time 🧐

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

and that's the whole page bestie, no cap 💖 this manual is from the EC2 API command line tools, version 1.6.14.1, api=2014-05-01, and the page itself is dated 2014-05-01 too. slay, periodt. 🎀✨🦋

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