Query instance specific information on AWS

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-identity/document 2> /dev/null |jq '.availabilityZone' | sed 's/\"//g'"

The full output is thus:

{
  "devpayProductCodes" : null,
  "marketplaceProductCodes" : null,
  "privateIp" : "x",
  "version" : "2017-09-30",
  "instanceId" : "x",
  "billingProducts" : null,
  "instanceType" : "m4.large",
  "availabilityZone" : "eu-west-2a",
  "kernelId" : null,
  "ramdiskId" : null,
  "accountId" : "x",
  "architecture" : "x86_64",
  "imageId" : "ami-123",
  "pendingTime" : "x",
  "region" : "eu-west-2"

This information is covered in more detail here.