Ec2 Passing User Data to Windows Instance at Launch

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There appear to be a couple of different ways to pass data to an Windows server instance at launch. It appears amazon has support for now passing commands to the instance at launch as outlined in this post: https://forums.aws.amazon.com/message.jspa?messageID=342135#342135

The .NET code I am using to start the instance is created from within an Amazon AWS console project in Visual Studio 2010

RunInstancesResponse InstanceResponse =  
amazonEC2Client.RunInstances(new RunInstancesRequest()

.WithImageId("ami-9c9f3af5")
.WithInstanceType("t1.micro")
.WithKeyName("yahoo data instance")
.WithMinCount(1)
.WithMaxCount(1)
.WithUserData(Convert.ToBase64String(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes
(<script>powershell 
Set-ExecutionPolicy Restricted</script>"))));

It seems that nothing I put between the script tags will run. Would appreciate if anyone had any ideas about this or tried to use it. Thanks

Mark · Accepted Answer · 2012-05-18 19:03:13Z

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It appears this was just added to the Windows series of AWS AMI's on 10-May-2012. Try again?

Source: "What's New > 2012.05.10", https://aws.amazon.com/amis/microsoft-windows-server-2008-r2-with-sql-server-standard-2008-r2

answered May 18, 2012 at 19:03

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Grant Roy Over a year ago

They added support for script tags in April, with that release you could then use <powershell></powershell> tags. The issue was that when you launch an ami the EC2-Config service will run once and then set itself to disabled. To create an ami you have to go into the configuration XML file and reset it to enabled and then create your ami from this. The problem was I wasn't realizing it was setting itself to disabled.

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