How to find instance id from within an Instance

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Can someone help me with how can I get my instance Id from within an instance?
Mar 26, 2019 in AWS by tyler
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For Amazon Linux AMIs you can use:

$ ec2-metadata -i
instance-id: i-1234567890abcdef0

For Ubuntu and some other linux flavours, 

ec2metadata --instance-id
instance-id: i-1234567890abcdef0
answered Mar 26, 2019 by Esha

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