cloudtools/stacker

AMI lookup should allow non-regex name filter to avoid slowness

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#555 opened on Mar 13, 2018

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Description

Looking up all Amazon-owned AMIs takes dozens of seconds for me. Even though I know the exact name of the AMI I want, the ami lookup still loads all of them and filters by regex. It should be possible to easily specify a non-regex filter that will passed-through to the API call directly.

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Review the existing AMI lookup function to understand how it filters using regex, then implement a new optional parameter that accepts an AMI name directly and passes it to the AWS API without regex filtering.
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cloudbackend
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