What is _[Red Hat Release Type] in AWS gold image naming convention?

Solution In Progress - Updated -

Issue

  • Why the account is publishing AMIs without a [Red Hat Release Type] and what it means? For example, ami-dd9668bf is the latest AMI matching ‘RHEL-7.4_HVM’ available.

How to Locate Red Hat Cloud Access Gold Images on AWS EC2
[Red Hat Product]-[Version]-[Virtualization Type]_[Red Hat Release Type]-[Release Date]-[Minor Version Release AMI Iteration]-[Subscription Model]-[EBS Volume Type]

  • AMI naming available in AWS console (Example)
RHEL-7.4_HVM-20180122-x86_64-1-Access2-GP2 - ami-dd9668bf
Provided by Red Hat, Inc.
Root device type: ebs Virtualization type: hvm Owner: 309956199498

  • Why ami-dd9668bf is not listed in AMI release note? Some users using the latest image (ami-dd9668bf) and wish to know the possible impact of such? Only valid AMI with ENA available in Release note is ami-d4edf4b7(for ap-southeast-2 region).
    RHEL-7.4-GA AMI Release Notes

  • Whats is the best practice to search the latest AMI in AWS console for a GEO and region? Should we be filtering on 'RHEL-7.4_HVM_GA-*' in AWS console?

Environment

  • RedHat image in AWS
  • RedHat AMI

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