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're running on windows, you can use this powershell one-liner:

$region=(Invoke-RestMethod "http://169.254.169.254/latest/dynamic/instance-identity/document").region