Query the instance metadata using curl and parse the output with jq tool
curl --silent http://169.254.169.254/latest/dynamic/instance-identity/document | jq -r .region
Example Output:
us-east-1
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October 2, 2018 09:44
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How to retrieve EC2 region information from instance metadata
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