Retreive Beanstalk Application name from within EC2 instance

envinspect.config

packages: 
  yum:
    jq: [] 

container_commands:
  01-getenv-info:
    command: |
      ENV_ID=`{"Ref": "AWSEBEnvironmentId" }`
      ENV_NAME=`{"Ref": "AWSEBEnvironmentName" }`
      echo "env.id="$ENV_ID > /tmp/awseb.properties
      echo "env.name="$ENV_NAME >> /tmp/awseb.properties
      EC2_REGION=`curl -s http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/placement/availability-zone | sed 's/[a-z]$//'`
      APP_NAME=`aws elasticbeanstalk describe-environments --environment-ids $ENV_ID --region=$EC2_REGION | jq -r '.Environments[0].ApplicationName'`
      echo "app.name="$APP_NAME >> /tmp/awseb.properties
      chmod 644 /tmp/awseb.properties

Is there a permission requirement here?
describe-environments seems to return an empty array..

I had the same problem and adding AWSElasticBeanstalkReadOnlyAccess permission to the user fixed the problem. Something more restrictive would probably be better