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Get Amazon AWS Instance ID (PHP / wget)
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aws-instance.php
<?php
//---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
// You can get the metadata for an AWS instance by loading the following URL
// Note: This URL must be loaded from an AWS instance
//
//---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
// URL:
// http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/instance-id
//
//---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
// wget:
// wget -q -O - http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/instance-id
//
//---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
echo @file_get_contents("http://instance-data/latest/meta-data/instance-id");
?>
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