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AWS Snippets

Invalidate a cloudfront distribution ⚑

aws cloudfront create-invalidation --paths "/pages/about" --distribution-id my-distribution-id

Get EC2 metadata from within the instance ⚑

The quickest way to fetch or retrieve EC2 instance metadata from within a running EC2 instance is to log in and run the command:

Fetch metadata from IPv4:

curl -s http://169.254.169.254/latest/dynamic/instance-identity/document

You can also download the ec2-metadata tool to get the info:

# Download the ec2-metadata script
wget http://s3.amazonaws.com/ec2metadata/ec2-metadata

# Modify the permission to execute the bash script
chmod +x ec2-metadata

./ec2-metadata --all

Find if external IP belongs to you ⚑

You can list the network interfaces that match the IP you're searching for

aws ec2 describe-network-interfaces --filters Name=association.public-ip,Values="{{ your_ip_address}}"