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Created January 2, 2017 12:39
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get_aws_region.sh
#!/usr/bin/env bash
# set env vars from within ec2 instance
EC2_AVAIL_ZONE=`curl -s http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/placement/availability-zone`
EC2_REGION="`echo \"$EC2_AVAIL_ZONE\" | sed -e 's:\([0-9][0-9]*\)[a-z]*\$:\\1:'`"
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