Interview Q&A / AWS & Cloud
AWS & Cloud interview questions
EC2, S3, Lambda, IAM and VPC basics, with when to pick which service.
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- What is EC2 user data and how is it different from instance metadata?
User data is a script or text you give an instance at launch, typically run once to install software. Instance metadata is information about the running instance, such as its ID, IP and IAM role credentials, which the instance reads from a local endpoint.
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