Curl-url-http-3a-2f-2f169.254.169.254-2flatest-2fapi-2ftoken

curl http://169.254.169.254/latest/api/token

Cloud providers reserve 169.254.169.254 for their . From inside a virtual machine (EC2 instance in AWS, Compute Engine VM in GCP, Virtual Machine in Azure), you can query this IP to get information about the instance itself without needing any external credentials. curl-url-http-3A-2F-2F169.254.169.254-2Flatest-2Fapi-2Ftoken

In plaintext, the command is: