[Bug] Finding latest Ubuntu AMI ID returns null

[ravinperera00]

We try to obtain the latest Ubuntu AMI ID here.

performance-common/distribution/scripts/cloudformation/cloudformation-common.sh

Line 605 in aec8493

latest_ami_id="$(aws ec2 describe-images --owners 099720109477 --filters 'Name=name,Values=ubuntu/images/hvm-ssd/ubuntu-bionic-18.04-amd64-server-????????' 'Name=state,Values=available' --output json | jq -r '.Images | sort_by(.CreationDate) | last(.[]).ImageId')"

But this returns null (probably because the Ubuntu version we are looking for is deprecated).

We could either update the Ubuntu version (if it is safe to do so), or add the additional option --include-deprecated to fetch the AMI IDs of old Ubuntu versions.