To clean up your AWS AMIs:

1. Include AMIs by name or tag.
2. Exclude AMIs in use, younger than N days, or the newest N images.
3. Manually confirm the list of AMIs for deletion.

Requirements

Requires Node.js >= 18.

Examples

To delete all AMIs in eu-west-1 where the name starts with amiprefix-, are older than 5 days, and not the newest 3 images, run:

npx aws-amicleaner --region eu-west-1 --include-name 'amiprefix-*' --exclude-newest 3 --exclude-days 5 --exclude-in-use --verbose

A typical confirmation screen:

+-----------+-------------+----------------------+--------------------------+---------+-----------------+-------------------------+
| Region    | ID          | Name                 | Creation Date            | Delete? | Include reasons | Exclude reasons         | 
+-----------+-------------+----------------------+--------------------------+---------+-----------------+-------------------------+
| eu-west-1 | ami-0a...72 | amiprefix-1685107232 | 2023-05-27T13:32:21.000Z | no      | name match      | days not passed, newest | 
| eu-west-1 | ami-02...3f | amiprefix-1685103569 | 2023-05-27T12:30:50.000Z | no      | name match      | days not passed, newest | 
| eu-west-1 | ami-09...d5 | amiprefix-1685095689 | 2023-05-27T10:19:59.000Z | no      | name match      | days not passed, newest | 
| eu-west-1 | ami-0f...c7 | amiprefix-1685039741 | 2023-05-26T18:47:37.000Z | no      | name match      | days not passed         | 
| eu-west-1 | ami-0f...f0 | amiprefix-1685018189 | 2023-05-26T12:49:02.000Z | no      | name match      | days not passed         | 
| eu-west-1 | ami-06...a8 | amiprefix-1685015512 | 2023-05-26T12:04:39.000Z | no      | name match      | days not passed         | 
| eu-west-1 | ami-04...44 | amiprefix-1684998014 | 2023-05-25T07:14:42.000Z | yes     | name match      |                         |
| eu-west-1 | ami-02...6e | amiprefix-1684954911 | 2023-05-24T19:15:37.000Z | yes     | name match      |                         |
| eu-west-1 | ami-0e...da | amiprefix-1684952424 | 2023-05-24T18:32:06.000Z | yes     | name match      |                         |
| eu-west-1 | ami-0b...54 | amiprefix-1684949922 | 2023-05-24T17:50:26.000Z | yes     | name match      |                         |
| eu-west-1 | ami-0b...2c | amiprefix-1684937102 | 2023-05-24T14:17:53.000Z | yes     | name match      |                         |
| eu-west-1 | ami-0e...aa | amiprefix-1684915092 | 2023-05-24T08:09:42.000Z | yes     | name match      |                         |
+-----------+-------------+----------------------+--------------------------+---------+-----------------+-------------------------+

Do you want to continue and remove 6 AMIs [y/N] ? : 

To delete all AMIs in eu-west-* (eu-west-1, eu-west-2, eu-west-3) tagged with CostCenter=X342-*-1111, are older than 7 days (default), are not the newest 5 images (default), and are not in use (default), run:

npx aws-amicleaner --region 'eu-west-*' --include-tag-key CostCenter --include-tag-value 'X342-*-1111'

Run the command without confirmation (useful in scripts):

npx aws-amicleaner --region 'eu-west-*' --include-tag-key CostCenter --include-tag-value 'X342-*-1111' --force-delete

To disable the defaults, run:

npx aws-amicleaner --include-name 'amiprefix-*' --exclude-newest 0 --exclude-days 0 --no-exclude-in-use --no-verbose

Arguments

-h, --help            show this help message and exit
--region REGION       The AWS region, e.g. us-east-1, arg can be used more than once, wildcard * supported
--include-name INCLUDENAME
                      The name that must be present, wildcard * supported
--include-tag-key INCLUDETAGKEY
                      The tag key that must be present
--include-tag-value INCLUDETAGVALUE
                      The tag value (for the tag key) that must be present, wildcard * supported
--exclude-newest EXCLUDENEWEST
                      Exclude the newest N AMIs
--exclude-days EXCLUDEDAYS
                      Exclude AMIs from deletion that are younger than N days
--exclude-in-use, --no-exclude-in-use
                      Exclude AMIs from deletion that are in use by EC2 instances, ASGs, Launch Configurations, and Launch Templates (default: true)
-f, --force-delete, --no-force-delete
                      Skip confirmation before deletion (default: false)
--verbose, --no-verbose
                      Display additional information (default: true)