AWS EC2, command line display instance type

Question

Do you guys know if we can display the EC2 instance type using command line?

Currently, I only have access to the command line of an EC2 instance. Is there a command line that I can type to display the type of instance. eg, p2.8xLarge or g.16x etc.

Answer 1

Yes - you can use the meta-data endpoint to retrieve information about your EC2 instance type via the command line:

> curl http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/instance-type
t1.micro

See this page for more information about the available commands.

Answer 2

After accessing your EC2 command line, type the following command for meta data:

$ ec2-metadata

It will display many meta data of your instance

You can even try this to get the instance type directly by grepping your terminal output

$ec2-metadata | grep "instance-type"