Carlo.Cloud
Thoughts and explorations of an Infrastructure Engineer and Leader

How to Know When You Are Throttled by Amazon's IMDS

You might not realize how often your instance accesses the metadata service(IMDS) for credentials. I faced puzzling failures that standard debugging couldn't explain. The cause? A little-known packet-per-second limit on link-local services. In this post, I’ll share my findings and solutions.

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