Amazon EC2 getting started guide

By endamadden

This caught me out for a few minutes this morning going through the tutorial

 The documentation cites ami-5bae4b32 as the image name of the getting-started image, getting-started.manifest.xml

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PROMPT> ec2-describe-images -o self -o amazon
IMAGE ami-5bae4b32 ec2-public-images/getting-started.manifest.xml amazon available public
IMAGE ami-68ae4b01 ec2-public-images/fedora-core4-base.manifest.xml amazon available public
IMAGE ami-69ae4b00 ec2-public-images/fedora-core4-apache-mysql.manifest.xml amazon available public
IMAGE ami-6dae4b04 ec2-public-images/fedora-core4-apache.manifest.xml amazon available public
IMAGE ami-6fae4b06 ec2-public-images/fedora-core4-mysql.manifest.xml amazon available public
IMAGE ami-61a54028 <your-s3-bucket>/image.manifest.xml 495219933132 available
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I tried this name and could not get my image to run, on running the command  ec2-describe-images -o self -o amazon it turns out the image name is actually ami-2bb65342

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D:\Program Files\Amazon\Authentication>ec2-describe-images -o self -o amazon
IMAGE   ami-20b65349    ec2-public-images/fedora-core4-base.manifest.xml
amazon  available       public
IMAGE   ami-22b6534b    ec2-public-images/fedora-core4-mysql.manifest.xml
amazon  available       public
IMAGE   ami-23b6534a    ec2-public-images/fedora-core4-apache.manifest.xml
amazon  available       public
IMAGE   ami-25b6534c    ec2-public-images/fedora-core4-apache-mysql.manifest.xml
        amazon  available       public
IMAGE   ami-26b6534f    ec2-public-images/developer-image.manifest.xml  amazon
available       public
IMAGE   ami-2bb65342    ec2-public-images/getting-started.manifest.xml  amazon
available       public

IMAGE   ami-36ff1a5f    ec2-public-images/fedora-core6-base-x86_64.manifest.xml
amazon  available       public
IMAGE   ami-bd9d78d4    ec2-public-images/demo-paid-AMI.manifest.xml    amazon
available       public  A79EC0DB
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 Hope this might save somebody some headscratching

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