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InstanceIdentity - OpsWorks
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InstanceIdentity

PDF

Contains a description of an Amazon EC2 instance from the Amazon EC2 metadata service. For more information, see Instance Metadata and User Data.

Contents

Document

A JSON document that contains the metadata.

Type: String

Required: No

Signature

A signature that can be used to verify the document's accuracy and authenticity.

Type: String

Required: No

See Also

For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

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