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$ AWS Architect · DevOps · Cloud
Thursday, November 5, 2026

Track Your IMDSv2 Migration with New EC2 CloudWatch Metric

AWS EC2 now gives you the ImdsV1Enabled CloudWatch metric to spot instances still running the older Instance Metadata Service Version 1 across all your accounts and regions. Set up dashboards and alarms to monitor your IMDSv2 migration progress without building custom tooling—it's available everywhere at no extra cost.

source: [aws/whats-new]