I want to script EC2 creation that would join a given ECS cluster, but need to specify an AMI. I can see that I can find an AMI in the AWS documentation, but the URL requires a login to the console and thus isn't convenient to screen-scrape. Is there any other recommended resource to determine the suggested AMI?
You can retrieve the recommended AMI from the Systems Manager Parameter Store API or subscribe to an SNS topic for notifications when new AMIs are released.