There is a local metadata API for Azure but it is fairly simple right now. Some limited instance info about your host ID, fault domain, and update domain: curl

There is a local metadata API for Azure but it is fairly simple right now. Some limited instance info about your host ID, fault domain, and update domain: curl http://169.254.169.254/metadata/v1/InstanceInfo http://169.254.169.254/metadata/v1/InstanceInfo Poll this regularly to find out when your VM is about to go down for maintenance: http://169.254.169.254/metadata/v1/maintenance http://169.254.169.254/metadata/v1/maintenance Those are the only two endpoints I know of. I encouraged them to require a special header for access to this API before releasing to the public but it looks like it was not included. A special header would help prevent your app from being able to access this from a user specified URL. Google requires a header to help prevent this: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/storing-retrieving-metadata#querying https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/storing-retrieving-met...