SSM parameter "current" for Ubuntu 22.04 has been removed

[Vincent Boulineau]

Hello,

It appears that a commonly used parameter to retrieve latest Ubuntu 22.04 AMI from SSM Parameter has been removed on AWS.

Basically the `/current` version has been removed, e.g. `/aws/service/canonical/ubuntu/server/22.04/stable/current` does not exist anymore.

While it's still there for `20.04` or `23.10`.

Verifying all parameters with:
aws ssm get-parameters-by-path --path /aws/service/canonical/ubuntu/server/22.04/ --recursive

Shows that `current` is gone and only versions with dates are left, like:
/aws/service/canonical/ubuntu/server/22.04/stable/20231207/arm64/hvm/ebs-gp2/ami-id

[Robby Pocase (rpocase)]

Thanks for reporting this Vincent! This happened to get resolved just as it was reported. We forcefully deprecated the latest release and initially did not repopulate. This was reverted to the previous serial (20231207) and will be updating to a new serial later today.

For reference, the latest serial was deprecated due to [0]

[0] - https://bugs.launchpad.net/cloud-images/+bug/2049860