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quiver / retrieve-EC2-region-information-from-metadata.md
Last active March 14, 2024 16:42
retrieve EC2's region from instance metadata

Sometimes you want to retrieve EC2 insntances' region information.

You can query that information through instance metadata(169.254.169.254).

$ curl --silent http://169.254.169.254/latest/dynamic/instance-identity/document
{
  "privateIp" : "172.31.2.15",
  "instanceId" : "i-12341ee8",
  "billingProducts" : null,
 "instanceType" : "t2.small",
#!/usr/bin/env bash
usage="Usage: $(basename "$0") region stack-name [aws-cli-opts]
where:
region - the AWS region
stack-name - the stack name
aws-cli-opts - extra options passed directly to create-stack/update-stack
"