The 169.254. 169.254 IP address is a “magic” IP in the cloud world, in AWS it used to retrieve user data and instance metadata specific to an instance
Metadata: http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/
Role: http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/iam/security-credentials/
Token: http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/iam/security-credentials/ec2-default-ssm/
Test for a https site jump:
Test for http site jump: