server set. • Daily (untested) and release images are published. Find images with SSM The AWS Systems Manager (SSM) agent is used by Canonical to store the latest AMI release versions for EC2. This provides querying for the latest AMI ID. Canonical stores SSM parameters under /aws/service/canonical/. To find the latest AMI ID, users can use the AWS CLI: aws ssm get-parameters --names \ /aws/service/canoni current: ubuntu/$PRODUCT/$RELEASE/stable/$SERIAL/$ARCH/$VIRT_TYPE/$VOL_TYPE/ami-id For more details on SSM check out this Discourse thread. Ownership verification Users can verify that an AMI was published