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Instance user data

Instance user data - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

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Instance user data

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- [Instructor] In this lecture, we'll briefly talk about the instance user data. An instance user data is basically the data or a set of commands that will be run by the EC2 instance once it's launched. You are the one who will provide the custom user data for your EC2 instance. This feature automates your EC2 instance launch process. The user data eliminates the need to manually connect to your instance and run the commands one by one during newly launched instance. You just have to simply add your user data to your instance, so these commands will be run automatically during launch. This is quite helpful if you have multiple issues EC2 instances that must be connected with an Amazon Elastic File System or grouped together in an Auto Scaling Group. You can create a user data script for all of your new web EC2 servers to automatically mount shared EFS volume. You can also configure your EC2 Auto Scaling launch configuration to execute a custom script through the use of user data. This…

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