Query EC2 tags from within instance

Question

Amazon recently added the wonderful feature of tagging EC2 instances with key-value pairs to make management of large numbers of VMs a bit easier.

Is there some way

Answer 1

Download and run a standalone executable to do that.

Sometimes one cannot install awscli that depends on python. docker might be out of the picture too.

Here is my implementation in golang: https://github.com/hmalphettes/go-ec2-describe-tags