Skip call to instance metadata host if region is specified #360
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Hey, thanks for the awesome work on this gem 👍
This PR avoids an extra fetch if region is specified.
The main benefit isn't performance, but rather permissions. For containers, AWS recommends blocking the instance metadata host (with
iptables
) so containers running on Amazon ECS don't have access to the underlying EC2 instance credentials.http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/latest/developerguide/task-iam-roles.html