At work, we recently standardised on Amazon Linux 2 for several reasons. One of which was to take advantage of EC2 instance connect so we no-longer have a public key distribution problem, and can grant SSH access using IAM. I initially wrote a quick shell script to create and use…
Quite often you'll find yourself needing to know the region your instance resides in. I've seen this done a couple of ways: $ curl -s http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/placement/availability-zone | sed -e 's/\([1-9]\).$/\1/g' This is pretty ugly, so I prefer to use this method…
Now my company has around 35 different EC2 instances (and growing), I needed a way to easily SSH to them by their 'Name' tag instead of randomly assigned DNS name as we still have pets not cattle (tut tut!). This simple script does the job quite nicely: #!/usr/bin/env…