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How to Query AWS EC2 Instance Metadata

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Muhammad Panji
Apr 28, 2021

In this tutorial we will learn how to get EC2 Instance Metadata from an AWS EC2 instance. We will get the metadata using ec2-metadata and ec2 metadata. This is not typo. The tools’ names are really similar but one of them uses dash on its name.
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Muhammad Panji

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