Unable to curl my EC2 instance to get my EC2 instance information

Question

I am trying to follow these Instance Metadata and User Data documentation.

I am trying to curl my EC2 instance but for some reason it give me connection refused. I have allowed incoming requests for HTTP and SSH, and allowed all traffic for outgoing traffic in my security group. I am able to ssh in its but unable to curl.

What am I missing?

Answer 1

The Amazon EC2 instance metadata service is available from within the Amazon EC2 instance itself, via this URL:

curl http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/