How to determine what AMIs are available for a selected AZ

Question

I am currently using cloud formation to launch the following AMI image: ami-0d28e5e0f13248294

However I have been told that the instance type (m5.large) is not supported in my requested Availability Zone (ap-southeast-2a).

How can I find a similar AMI that is supported in ap-southeast-2a. I have tried using the 'launch EC2 instance' in the console but I don't get any information about the availability zones I can use for ap-southeast-2a for my required instance type.

Answer 1

AMI's provide information required to launch the instance. An AMI is registered in a region and not in an availability zone.

You can search the list of AMI's in the given region by the following command

aws ec2 describe-images --owners self amazon --filters "Name=root-device-type,Values=ebs"