Working with public parameters in Parameter Store

Some AWS services publish information about common artifacts as AWS Systems Manager public parameters. For example, the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) service publishes information about Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) as public parameters.

Topics in this guide

Discovering public parameters in Parameter Store
Calling AMI public parameters in Parameter Store
Calling the ECS optimized AMI public parameter in Parameter Store
Calling the EKS optimized AMI public parameter in Parameter Store
Calling public parameters for AWS services, Regions, endpoints, Availability Zones, local zones, and Wavelength Zones in Parameter Store

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Deleting parameters

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