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ec2-metadata

An easy interface to query the EC2 metadata API, with caching.
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

ec2-metadata has 2.6M monthly downloads and 115 GitHub stars. Version 3.0.0 supports Python 3.10+, first published in 2017.

It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Feb 2026.

It is built on top of urllib3. It is used by 51 tracked packages, including infrahouse-toolkit, infrahouse-core and sbcli-dev.

GitHub topics include ec2, aws and ec2-instance-metadata.

Downloads
Day
56.7K
Week
507.4K
Month
2.6M
Stars
115
Forks
34
Issues
1
Version
3.0.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
44
Adoption
60
Community
50
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
24 days ago
Monthly downloads
2,562,458
• Active
Activity within 30 days
Stable
Activity within 31-180 days
Minimal
Activity within 181-365 days, or no activity data
At Risk
No activity for > 365 days, but > 10,000 monthly downloads
Archived
Repository flagged as archived on GitHub
How the popularity category was determined
Monthly downloads
2,562,458
Stars
115
Stars per 1k downloads
0.04
Industry Standard
> 10,000,000 monthly downloads
• Hidden Gem
< 0.5 stars per 1k downloads and > 100,000 monthly downloads
Community Favorite
> 5 stars per 1k downloads
Rising Star
Balanced ratio of stars to downloads
Unknown
Fewer than 1,000 monthly downloads, or no star data
How download momentum is calculated
Week daily avg
72,480
Month daily avg
85,415
Momentum
-15.1%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.10
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.12 or newer
• Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.9, 3.10, or 3.11
Legacy
Supports 3.8 or older (or Python 2)
Unknown
No requires_python specified or unparseable
License categories
License
MIT
• Permissive
MIT, Apache, BSD, ISC, Unlicense, CC0, etc.
Copyleft
GPL, LGPL, AGPL, MPL, EPL, etc.
Proprietary
Commercial, all rights reserved, custom EULAs
Unknown
No license specified, or none of the above match
How the release cadence was determined
Last release
145 days ago
Total releases
32
Releases/year
3.5
Rapid
Last release within 365 days and > 12 releases/year
• Regular
Last release within 365 days
Slow
Last release 366-730 days ago
Stalled
Last release > 730 days ago, or no releases
Unknown
No usable release date available
How contributor risk was determined
Contributors
19
Monthly downloads
2,562,458
High Load
≤ 2 contributors and ≥ 50,000 monthly downloads
Moderate Load
< 10 contributors and ≥ 500,000 monthly downloads
Low Load
< 25 contributors and ≥ 5,000,000 monthly downloads, or sole maintainer with ≥ 10,000 monthly downloads
• Balanced
Enough contributors for the package's popularity
Unknown
No contributor data available
Engagement
53
 
Issue Burden
8.7
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
55.9%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
120d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.

Downloads by OS

Linux 27.0K
Windows 387
macOS 35

Python Versions

3.12
22.1% 4.9K
3.11
22.0% 4.9K
3.10
19.3% 4.3K
3.9
18.5% 4.1K
3.14
18.1% 4.0K

Top Countries

1. US US
22.8K
2. BR BR
2.2K
3. IN IN
887
4. DE DE
592
5. IE IE
429
6. ID ID
217
7. SG SG
99
8. AU AU
84
9. GB GB
46
10. CA CA
36
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
MIT
First Release
June 16, 2017
Last Release
4 months ago
Last Commit
3 weeks ago
Latest Version
3.0.0
Total Releases
32
Contributors
19
Open PRs
1
Archived
No
Python Versions
3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14
Wheels
py2 py3
Keywords
AWS EC2 metadata
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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