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

For the sed and curl solution it looks like format has changed a bit. For me works

curl -s http://169.254.169.254/latest/dynamic/instance-identity/document | sed -n 's/ "region" : "\(.*\)"[,]/\1/p'