[ec2-beta] Get AWS keys from within instance?

[Michael Greenly]

You can get the public key with something like

curl -s http://169.254.169.254/1.0/meta-data/public-keys/0/openssh-key/

but I don't think you can get the private key

On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 2:48 PM, Darren Govoni <darren at ontrenet.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>  In my ongoing effort to auto-configure my Ubuntu EC2 image on-the-fly
> I find a need to get the AWS keys associated with the account under
> which the instance is booting. This is so the services I run inside the
> instance have the correct keys to communicate back to AWS without
> requiring them to come from the user or some other untrusted source.
>
> Is it possible (similar to the metadata link) to get the keys from
> within the instance?
>
> Thank you!
> Darren
>
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