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description: |
  The Amazon AMI data source provides information from an AMI that will be fetched based
  on the filter options provided in the configuration.

page_title: Amazon AMI - Data Source
sidebar_title: Amazon AMI
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# Amazon AMI Data Source

Type: `amazon-ami`

The Amazon AMI data source will filter and fetch an Amazon AMI, and output all the AMI information that will
be then available to use in the [Amazon builders](/docs/builders/amazon/instance).

-> **Note:** Data sources is a feature exclusively to HCL2 templates.

Basic example of usage:

```hcl
data "amazon-ami" "basic-example" {
    filters = {
        virtualization-type = "hvm"
        name = "ubuntu/images/*ubuntu-xenial-16.04-amd64-server-*"
        root-device-type = "ebs"
    }
    owners = ["099720109477"]
    most_recent = true
}
```
This selects the most recent Ubuntu 16.04 HVM EBS AMI from Canonical. Note that the data source will fail unless
*exactly* one AMI is returned. In the above example, `most_recent` will cause this to succeed by selecting the newest image.

## Configuration Reference

@include 'builder/amazon/common/AmiFilterOptions-not-required.mdx'

## Output Data

@include 'datasource/amazon/ami/DatasourceOutput.mdx'