AMI no longer available about big-blue-button-cloudformation-cfhl

[ghendo]

Ok thanks. It seems it is actually still there. They just removed it from the quick start list

[toshke]

@ghendo ami-02d7e25c1cfdd5695 is for ap-southeast-2 region.

$ aws ec2 describe-images --image-ids ami-02d7e25c1cfdd5695
{
    "Images": [
        {
            "Architecture": "x86_64",
            "CreationDate": "2020-01-31T21:59:23.000Z",
            "ImageId": "ami-02d7e25c1cfdd5695",
            "ImageLocation": "099720109477/ubuntu/images/hvm-ssd/ubuntu-xenial-16.04-amd64-server-20200129",
            "ImageType": "machine",
            "Public": true,
            "OwnerId": "099720109477",
            "PlatformDetails": "Linux/UNIX",
            "UsageOperation": "RunInstances",
            "State": "available",
            "BlockDeviceMappings": [
                {
                    "DeviceName": "/dev/sda1",
                    "Ebs": {
                        "DeleteOnTermination": true,
                        "SnapshotId": "snap-04a477fb27b0b692f",
                        "VolumeSize": 8,
                        "VolumeType": "gp2",
                        "Encrypted": false
                    }
                },
                {
                    "DeviceName": "/dev/sdb",
                    "VirtualName": "ephemeral0"
                },
                {
                    "DeviceName": "/dev/sdc",
                    "VirtualName": "ephemeral1"
                }
            ],
            "Description": "Canonical, Ubuntu, 16.04 LTS, amd64 xenial image build on 2020-01-29",
            "EnaSupport": true,
            "Hypervisor": "xen",
            "Name": "ubuntu/images/hvm-ssd/ubuntu-xenial-16.04-amd64-server-20200129",
            "RootDeviceName": "/dev/sda1",
            "RootDeviceType": "ebs",
            "SriovNetSupport": "simple",
            "VirtualizationType": "hvm"
        }
    ]
}
Nikolas-MBP:~ nikolatosic$ aws ec2 describe-images --image-ids ami-02d7e25c1cfdd5695 --region ap-southeast-2
{
    "Images": [
        {
            "Architecture": "x86_64",
            "CreationDate": "2020-01-31T21:59:23.000Z",
            "ImageId": "ami-02d7e25c1cfdd5695",
            "ImageLocation": "099720109477/ubuntu/images/hvm-ssd/ubuntu-xenial-16.04-amd64-server-20200129",
            "ImageType": "machine",
            "Public": true,
            "OwnerId": "099720109477",
            "PlatformDetails": "Linux/UNIX",
            "UsageOperation": "RunInstances",
            "State": "available",
            "BlockDeviceMappings": [
                {
                    "DeviceName": "/dev/sda1",
                    "Ebs": {
                        "DeleteOnTermination": true,
                        "SnapshotId": "snap-04a477fb27b0b692f",
                        "VolumeSize": 8,
                        "VolumeType": "gp2",
                        "Encrypted": false
                    }
                },
                {
                    "DeviceName": "/dev/sdb",
                    "VirtualName": "ephemeral0"
                },
                {
                    "DeviceName": "/dev/sdc",
                    "VirtualName": "ephemeral1"
                }
            ],
            "Description": "Canonical, Ubuntu, 16.04 LTS, amd64 xenial image build on 2020-01-29",
            "EnaSupport": true,
            "Hypervisor": "xen",
            "Name": "ubuntu/images/hvm-ssd/ubuntu-xenial-16.04-amd64-server-20200129",
            "RootDeviceName": "/dev/sda1",
            "RootDeviceType": "ebs",
            "SriovNetSupport": "simple",
            "VirtualizationType": "hvm"
        }
    ]
}

Which region are you using? To discover default ami for your own region, as described in the README.md, you can use following ruby snippet

require 'aws-sdk-ec2'
region = 'us-east-1'
ami_name = 'ubuntu/images/hvm-ssd/ubuntu-xenial-16.04-amd64-server-20200129'
canonical_id = '099720109477'
regional_client = Aws::EC2::Client.new(region: region)
regional_ami = regional_client.describe_images({ filters: [
      { name: 'name', values: [ami_name] },
      { name: 'owner-id', values: [canonical_id] }
  ] }).images[0].image_id
puts "Image id: #{regional_ami}"

Here's the link to release script that utilises this code as well https://github.com/toshke/big-blue-button-cloudformation-cfhl/blob/master/scripts/release_all.rb#L34