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Python script to fetch AWS access key and secret key from a running EC2 instance
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credentials.py
from botocore.credentials import InstanceMetadataProvider, InstanceMetadataFetcher
provider = InstanceMetadataProvider(iam_role_fetcher=InstanceMetadataFetcher(timeout=1000, num_attempts=2))
credentials = provider.load()
access_key = credentials.access_key
secret_key = credentials.secret_key
print access_key
print secret_key
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