{"id":541,"date":"2009-09-10T13:42:04","date_gmt":"2009-09-10T19:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/archives\/000541"},"modified":"2009-09-10T13:42:04","modified_gmt":"2009-09-10T19:42:04","slug":"amazon-ami-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/archives\/541","title":{"rendered":"Amazon AMI search"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s interesting to me that there is no Amazon Machine Image (AMI) search.\u00a0 AMIs are virtual machine images that you can run on <a href=\"http:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/ec2\/\">EC2<\/a>, Amazon&#8217;s cloud computing offering.\u00a0 Sure, you can <a href=\"http:\/\/developer.amazonwebservices.com\/connect\/kbcategory.jspa?categoryID=171\">browse the list of AMIs<\/a>, but that doesn&#8217;t really help.\u00a0 Finding an image seems to be haphazard, via a google search (how I found <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.alfresco.com\/wiki\/Alfresco_Amazon_Machine_Image\">this alfresco image<\/a>) or via the community around a product on an image (like this image for <a href=\"http:\/\/groups.drupal.org\/node\/25065\">pressflow, a high performance drupal<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/developer.amazonwebservices.com\/connect\/thread.jspa?threadID=26915&#038;tstart=0\">I&#8217;m not the only person with this complaint<\/a>.\u00a0 The Amazon EC2 API only provides <a href=\"http:\/\/docs.amazonwebservices.com\/AWSEC2\/latest\/APIReference\/ApiReference-ItemType-DescribeImagesResponseItemType.html\">limited data about various images<\/a>, but surely some kind of search mechanism wouldn&#8217;t be too hard to whip up, if only on the image owner and platform fields.<\/p>\n<p>Does anyone know where this exists?\u00a0 My current best solution for finding a specific AMI is to use the fantastic <a href=\"http:\/\/developer.amazonwebservices.com\/connect\/entry.jspa?externalID=609\">ElasticFox FireFox plugin<\/a> and just search free form on the &#8216;Images&#8217; tab.<\/p>\n<p>[tags]amazon, ec2, can I get a &#8216;search search'[\/tags]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s interesting to me that there is no Amazon Machine Image (AMI) search.\u00a0 AMIs are virtual machine images that you can run on EC2, Amazon&#8217;s cloud computing offering.\u00a0 Sure, you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cloud-computing","category-web-applications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}