boto3 equivalent to boto.utils.get_instance_metadata()?

Question

In regular boto 2.38 I used to access instance metadata (e.g. get current stack-name), through boto\'s

boto.utils.get_instance_metadata()

Answer 1

You could use the third-party library ec2-metadata.

Here an example from the docs showing how to get your EC2 region:

  pip install ec2-metadata

  >>> from ec2_metadata import ec2_metadata
  >>> print(ec2_metadata.region)
  us-east-1