Symptoms

For those looking to enumerate the available options for SoftNAS AMIs on AWS Marketplace, in order to automate deployment via your own scripts, a command can be run in your command shell to do so.

Purpose

Providing the command to access a list of available AMI and their IDs.

Resolution

In your host system's command line interface, run the following command to obtain a list of the available AWS marketplace AMIs and their associated IDs:

aws --region us-east-1 ec2 describe-images --owners aws-marketplace --filters Name=name,Values="*SoftNAS*"

This command will return a list of the available SoftNAS AMIs.