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Get IAM access key from AWS EC2 instance profile metadata
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get_keys_from_inst_metadata.sh
#!/bin/sh
set -e
AWS_INST_PROFILE=$(curl -sL http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/iam/security-credentials/ | tail)
curl -sL http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/iam/security-credentials/${AWS_INST_PROFILE} \
| python -c 'import sys,json;j=json.load(sys.stdin);print("AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=%s\nAWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=%s\n" % (j["AccessKeyId"],j["SecretAccessKey"]))'
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