AWS - HowTo get instance id from within EC2 console

 

In this blog post, let us see how we get AWS EC2 instance id from within the EC2 itself

Pre-requisite:

• An active AWS account
• Permissions to launch and use AWS EC2 instance

Steps:

• Create a simple free tier linux based EC2 instance from the AWS EC2 console
• Take SSH or connect to the newly created EC2 instance
• Then run the command "cat /var/lib/cloud-data/instance-id and get the id displayed/returned 

Note:

• We can get the instance id from the EC2 console as well but this is another simple way of getting the value