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Challenge2 EC2-Metadata And Get-data-Value from key Challenge3 Get-Value from nested objects

Get the metadata of ec2 instance within AWS and provide a json formatted output. A function in which pass the object and a key and get back the value

• Create an EC2 Linux instance on AWS
• SSH into the instance
• Install Python 3 and git on your instance
  • sudo yum install python3 git
• Clone this repository
  • `git clone https://github.com/meetsdeep/-aws-metadata-json-demo.git
• Install pipenv
  • sudo pip3 install pipenv
• Open the repository on your instance
  • cd aws-metadata-json
• Install project dependancies
  • pipenv install

• Open the src folder
  • cd aws-metadata-json/src

• python3 get_ec2_metadata.py
• python3 get_data_key.py

• python3 get_value.py `

• It makes use of the http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data link-local address. Instance metatada is provided at this link, but only when you visit it from a running instance.
• A few simple Python scripts are used to extract the required information using the above API.
• See AWS user guide for more info on the instance metadata API.