get the list of Quickstart AMIs only

This is a bit late for your question I'm sure @Prasanta, but hopefully this'll help the next person that comes along. It appears that the URL below will return a listing the Quickstart AMIs in JSON format. You should then be able to parse this list accordingly.

NOTE: the url below is purposely 'broken' because frustratingly re:Post won't let the text "aws dot dev" appear in any posts. So simply remove the space on either side of the "aws . dev" to get the proper URL.

https://prod.us-west-1.qs.console.ec2.aws . dev/get_quickstart_list_en.json

BTW, I needed this exact thing. I went into Inspect mode on the AWS console and simply found the GET that was fetching the data that was used to populate the UI. Viola!

Cheers,

Gary

Hello! You can try to filter via the Description attribute. For example, this command will retrieve any AMI you have permission to that has "QuickStart" in the description:

aws ec2 describe-images --filters Name=description,Values="*QuickStart*"

You can also try using the AMI name field:

aws ec2 describe-images --filters Name=name,Values="*QuickStart*"

I got some results but they might not be the AMIs you want. I am not sure if these AMIs need to be shared with your account (and that's why I don't see many hits returned)