对于powershell用户:

(New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString("http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/instance-id")

对于AWS elastic beanstalk eb cli，请执行eb tags——list

对于c++(使用cURL):

    #include <curl/curl.h>

    //// cURL to string
    size_t curl_to_str(void *contents, size_t size, size_t nmemb, void *userp) {
        ((std::string*)userp)->append((char*)contents, size * nmemb);
        return size * nmemb;
    };

    //// Read Instance-id 
    curl_global_init(CURL_GLOBAL_ALL); // Initialize cURL
    CURL *curl; // cURL handler
    CURLcode res_code; // Result
    string response;
    curl = curl_easy_init(); // Initialize handler
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/instance-id");
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION, curl_to_str);
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_WRITEDATA, &response);
    res_code = curl_easy_perform(curl); // Perform cURL
    if (res_code != CURLE_OK) { }; // Error
    curl_easy_cleanup(curl); // Cleanup handler
    curl_global_cleanup(); // Cleanup cURL

在你提到用户作为根用户的问题中，我应该提到的一件事是实例ID不依赖于用户。

对于Node开发者来说，

var meta  = new AWS.MetadataService();

meta.request("/latest/meta-data/instance-id", function(err, data){
    console.log(data);
});

Python:

import boto.utils
region=boto.utils.get_instance_metadata()['local-hostname'].split('.')[1]

这可以归结为一句话:

python -c "import boto.utils; print boto.utils.get_instance_metadata()['local-hostname'].split('.')[1]"

除了local_hostname，你还可以使用public_hostname，或者:

boto.utils.get_instance_metadata()['placement']['availability-zone'][:-1]

如果您还需要查询实例ID以外的其他信息，请使用/dynamic/instance-identity/document URL。

wget -q - o - http://169.254.169.254/latest/dynamic/instance-identity/document

这将为您提供这样的JSON数据——只需要一个请求。

{
    "devpayProductCodes" : null,
    "privateIp" : "10.1.2.3",
    "region" : "us-east-1",
    "kernelId" : "aki-12345678",
    "ramdiskId" : null,
    "availabilityZone" : "us-east-1a",
    "accountId" : "123456789abc",
    "version" : "2010-08-31",
    "instanceId" : "i-12345678",
    "billingProducts" : null,
    "architecture" : "x86_64",
    "imageId" : "ami-12345678",
    "pendingTime" : "2014-01-23T45:01:23Z",
    "instanceType" : "m1.small"
}