Finding Meta-data

Question

Can some one provide me steps to find meta-data for an EC2 instance? While finding the meta-data is it compulsory to login through IAM account only?

Answer

Your instance metadata is available from your running instance, you do not need to use the Amazon EC2 console or the AWS CLI.

To view all categories of instance metadata from within a running instance, use the following IPv4 URIs.

```
http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/
```
The following documentation provide commands that you can use on a Linux instance. For the commands to retrieve instance metadata from a Windows instance, see [Retrieve instance metadata in the Amazon EC2 User Guide for Windows Instances](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/WindowsGuide/instancedata-data-retrieval.html).

[+] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/instancedata-data-retrieval.html#instancedata-meta-data-retrieval-examples

Finding Meta-data

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