How to find how Amazon AMI created date

Question

Is there a way to find out Amazon EC2 AMI creation date/time from AWS Console or command line?

Note: I am not looking for instance creation, rather when was a particular AMI created?

Answer 1

Querying the creation date of an AMI has been a requested feature since 2006.

Back when I was creating community AMIs in 2007-2009 I started a trend of including the creation date in the AMI name/description (e.g., 20121210). This practice has been picked up by a number of popular AMI series, so you may want to check out the name and description of the AMI for a date looking string.