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When working in a dynamic environment you can use the following syntax to query an instance for information about itself.

I found this very useful when needing to discover which availability zone an instance was running in, for example.

curl http://169.254.169.254/latest/dynamic/instance-identit...

Netflix is, in my eyes, a world-leader in video delivery, so I figured if they can use AWS to serve their content, why can't I? I mean, sure, they're an international multi-billion dollar powerhouse, and I am but one man. Still, I thought to myself if anything else, it'd make an interesting case-stu...