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September 6, 2017 18:21
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Get the AWS region - either from the profile or, if running on an AWS instance, by looking up the instance metadata.
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| echo If the region is given in the environment: | |
| echo $AWS_DEFAULT_REGION | |
| echo If aws has been configured: | |
| aws configure get region | |
| echo If running on an aws instance, the availability zone is in the metadata and hence we have the region: | |
| ec2metadata --availability-zone | sed -r 's/.$//g' | |
| echo Equivalently: | |
| curl -s http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/placement/availability-zone | sed -r 's/.$//g' |
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