aws-remote-imds is a reverse proxy server that is supposed to be running on AWS EC2 instances or ECS Fargate containers. aws-remote-imds routes your web requests to the imds endpoint - http://169.254.169.254, and return the metadata with some additional information.
You can inspect ec2 instances or ecs fargate containers' metadata via http api, without directry connecting them via ssh or session manager.
- ec2-remote-imds: See here
- fargate-remote-imds: Not Implemented Yet