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Can't access EC2 meta-data with public ip??

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Can't access EC2 meta-data with public ip??

if I do curl http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data from the server it works but if I replace the IP address with the public IP address and use a brower.. I am getting file not found?

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Compute
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Amazon EC2
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asked 3 years ago1.3K views
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Hi,

The reason is outlined here: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/instancedata-data-retrieval.html

The instance metadata can only be reached from the ec2 server as mentioned below:

The IP addresses are link-local addresses and are valid only from the instance. For more information, see Link-local address on Wikipedia.

Hope it clarifies

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answered 3 years ago

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