Get the latest Ubuntu 12.04 official AMI using aws-cli with query option

#aws

#ubuntu

#ami

#awscli

#cloud-images

#ami-id

aws --region ap-southeast-2 ec2 describe-images --owners 099720109477 \
    --filters Name=root-device-type,Values=ebs \
        Name=architecture,Values=x86_64 \
        Name=name,Values='*hvm-ssd/ubuntu-precise-12.04*' --query 'sort_by(Images, &Name)[-1].ImageId' --output text

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iapilgrim

Thanks. Here is my modification to find Ubuntu 16.04
```

for region in us-east-1 us-east-2 us-west-1 us-west-2 eu-west-1 eu-west-2 eu-central-1 ap-northeast-1 ap-southeast-1 ap-southeast-2 ca-central-1
do
ami=aws --region $region ec2 describe-images \ --filters Name=root-device-type,Values=ebs \ Name=architecture,Values=x86_64 \ Name=virtualization-type,Values=hvm \ Name=name,Values=*ubuntu-xenial-16.04-amd64-server-20161214 \ --query 'Images[*].{ID:ImageId}' --output text