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AWS region/availability zone one-liners (from running instance)
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aws-instance-region-az.sh
# One can get the availability zone easily from within an AWS EC2 instance:
AVAILABILITY_ZONE=`curl -s http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/placement/availability-zone`
echo $AVAILABILITY_ZONE
# Take that a step further, and you can get the region easily by just chopping
# the last character off.
REGION=`curl -s http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/placement/availability-zone | sed -e 's/.$//g'`
echo $REGION
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