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by mnutt 2438 days ago
The EC2 Metadata API isn’t meant for high-throughput calls, so it’s possible to hit rate limits even from moderate polling once you get enough nodes involved.
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manigandham 2437 days ago
Why do you have to constantly poll it? It's once on startup to discover the zone it's running in.
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cle 2430 days ago
The AZ for an instance is fixed. Check it at startup time, and cache it in-memory.
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