Convert boto3 AMI Creation Date from string to Python datetime

When retrieving the AMI Creation Date from boto3 it returns a string data type. Visually, this is okay but it is challenging to do operations and comparisons to the AMI Creation Date in this format.

To solve the issue we need to convert the AMI Creation Date from type string to datetime before we could do some operations.

The AMI Creation Date string looks like 2019-09-18T07:34:34.000Z. To convert this we need to use the strptime function from the datetime.datetime library.

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