Comment 5 for bug 851159

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Scott Moser (smoser) wrote : Re: [Bug 851159] Re: ec2 metadata service is very slow

On Thu, 29 Sep 2011, anotherjesse wrote:

> it is creating a dictionary of all possible data and then return a
> subset of that hash.

And it does it for every request. ie, no caching.
cloud-init and others (boto.utils.get_instance_metadata()) crawl this
service, doing maybe a couple dozen hits in rapid succession.