docs: def get_image_id_by_name(self, ami_name, region='us-east-1'):
          """
          Locate an AMI image id by name in a particular region
          :param ami_name: ami name you need the id for
          :param region: the region the image exists in
          :return: id of the image
          """
          image_details = None
          detail_query_attempts = 0
  
          while image_details is None:
              describe_cmd = "aws ec2 describe-images --filters 'Name=name,Values={}' --profile '{}' --region {}"\
                  .format(ami_name, self.aws_project, region)
              res = subprocess.check_output(shlex.split(describe_cmd))
  
              print "describe command returned: {}".format(res)
  
              image_details = parse_image_json(res)
              if not image_details:
                  if detail_query_attempts > 5:
                      print "Tried to get image details 5 times and failed, exiting"
                      raise Exception("Unable to get AMI image id from AWS using the image name")
                  time.sleep(10)
                  print "No images defined returned yet, will try another query"
                  detail_query_attempts += 1
  
          image_id = image_details['ImageId']
          print "located image id: {}".format(image_id)
          return image_id