Short

The latest ubuntu pro AMI in eu-central-1 has an unsupported Kernel which has reached the end of its livepatch support.

Which AMI should I use to start a recent, working LTS 22.04 Pro Ubuntu, and how do I find it?

What I Did

I try to spin up a Ubuntu Pro 22.04 on AWS.Based on

aws ec2 describe-images --region eu-central-1 --owner 099720109477 \      --filters "Name=name,Values=ubuntu-pro-server/images/hvm-ssd/ubuntu-*22.04-amd64*" \      --query 'sort_by(Images, &CreationDate)[-1].{Name: Name, ImageId: ImageId, CreationDate: CreationDate}'

I have choosen the following AMI:

{"Name": "ubuntu-pro-server/images/hvm-ssd/ubuntu-jammy-22.04-amd64-pro-server-20240207","ImageId": "ami-0b251af482d61fa8e","CreationDate": "2024-02-07T04:14:19.000Z"}

AND started an instance from it. After login I see:

*** System restart required. Kernel is no longer supported ***

Also pro status warns me:

The current kernel (6.2.0-1018-aws, x86_64) has reached the end of its livepatch support.

A reboot does not fix this.

Given this AMI is just 9 days old and published from canonical and a "Long Term Support", this is unexpected.