Find region from within an EC2 instance

Question

Is there a way to look up the region of an instance from within the instance?

I\'m looking for something similar to the method of finding the instance id.

Answer 1

If you have jq installed, you can also go about it (probably the most "graceful" method) this way:

curl -s http://169.254.169.254/latest/dynamic/instance-identity/document | jq -c -r .region

This simply returns the raw value of "region" without any pretty-printing or other formatting. Reference: AWS Forum