UserData - Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
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UserData

Describes the user data for an instance.

Contents

Data

The user data. If you are using an Amazon SDK or command line tool, Base64-encoding is performed for you, and you can load the text from a file. Otherwise, you must provide Base64-encoded text.

Type: String

Required: No

See Also

For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific Amazon SDKs, see the following: