Clearing AMI without tag

[bonclay7]

Clearing AMI without tag

[kvz]

I think you can, by pointing the --mapping-key to name instead of tags, check out this example:

❯ amicleaner --full-report --keep-previous 10 --mapping-key name --mapping-values tosip

Default values : ==>
mapping_key : name
mapping_values : ['tosip']
excluded_mapping_values : []
keep_previous : 10
ami_min_days : -1

Retrieving AMIs to clean ...
tosip
+-----------------------+-------------------------------------------------+--------------------------+
|         AMI ID        |                     AMI Name                    |      Creation Date       |
+-----------------------+-------------------------------------------------+--------------------------+
| ami-02eabc57a5f347de1 |    tosip-main-14-ec2-ebs200-20181108T084515Z    | 2018-11-08T08:58:22.000Z |
| ami-0d24a5c4950e88866 |    tosip-main-14-ec2-ebs200-20181108T150902Z    | 2018-11-08T15:21:59.000Z |
| ami-0a5e8c0adb7f23435 |     tosip-main-14-ec2-ebs200-20181126T142411    | 2018-11-26T14:37:46.000Z |
...

It would appear that it does require you to know a (part of) the name of the instances you want to clean up.

[jmilliron]

Apparently not. Bummer.

[jamesinc]

I think you could pipe the command output, something like

amicleaner --full-report | grep -woE "ami\-[0-9a-z]+" | xargs -L1 echo "aws ec2 deregister-image --image-id"

And then you could copy/paste the CLI commands back into a console.

I think after that you could then use amicleaner --check-orphans to clean up any associated snapshots.

Edit: just tried this and it all worked as above