InstanceMetadataOptionsResponse - Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud

InstanceMetadataOptionsResponse

The metadata options for the instance.

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httpEndpoint

Indicates whether the HTTP metadata endpoint on your instances is enabled or disabled.

If the value is disabled, you cannot access your instance metadata.

Type: String

Valid Values: disabled | enabled

Required: No

httpProtocolIpv6

Indicates whether the IPv6 endpoint for the instance metadata service is enabled or disabled.

Default: disabled

Type: String

Valid Values: disabled | enabled

Required: No

httpPutResponseHopLimit

The maximum number of hops that the metadata token can travel.

Possible values: Integers from 1 to 64

Type: Integer

Required: No

httpTokens

Indicates whether IMDSv2 is required.

  • optional - IMDSv2 is optional, which means that you can use either IMDSv2 or IMDSv1.

  • required - IMDSv2 is required, which means that IMDSv1 is disabled, and you must use IMDSv2.

Type: String

Valid Values: optional | required

Required: No

instanceMetadataTags

Indicates whether access to instance tags from the instance metadata is enabled or disabled. For more information, see Work with instance tags using the instance metadata.

Type: String

Valid Values: disabled | enabled

Required: No

state

The state of the metadata option changes.

pending - The metadata options are being updated and the instance is not ready to process metadata traffic with the new selection.

applied - The metadata options have been successfully applied on the instance.

Type: String

Valid Values: pending | applied

Required: No

See Also

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