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David542
David542

Reputation: 110482

Get instance name via curl on ec2?

Is it possible to get the actual name of the ec2 instance, for example:

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I've been able to grab some of the lower-level data by doing stuff like:

$ curl http://169.254.169.254/1.0/meta-data/hostname

But is it possible to get the name (or tags) anywhere without using some sort of aws, ec2, or boto command?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1865

Answers (1)

Guillermo Mansilla
Guillermo Mansilla

Reputation: 3889

Tags data is not available through instance metadata, you would need aws-cli for that.

As of today, this is what's available:

$ curl http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/
ami-id
ami-launch-index
ami-manifest-path
block-device-mapping/
events/
hostname
identity-credentials/
instance-action
instance-id
instance-type
local-hostname
local-ipv4
mac
metrics/
network/
placement/
profile
public-hostname
public-ipv4
public-keys/
reservation-id
security-groups

Fun fact: this feature request was suggested almost a decade ago

Upvotes: 4

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