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codeinthehole / user-data.sh
Created August 18, 2014 12:41
Get the value of an EC2 instance's tag
#!/usr/bin/env bash
#
# Get the value of a tag for a running EC2 instance.
#
# This can be useful within bootstrapping scripts ("user-data").
#
# Note the EC3 instance needs to have an IAM role that lets it read tags. The policy
# JSON for this looks like:
#
# {