Amazon EC2 custom AMI not running bootstrap (user-data)

Question

I have encountered an issue when creating custom AMIs (images) on EC2 instances. If I start up a Windows default 2012 server instance with a custom bootstrap/user-data scrip

Answer 1

For those people that got here from Google and are running a Server 2016 instance, it seems that this is no longer possible.

Server2016 doesn't have ec2config service and so you can't use the persist flag.

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Described in Anthony Neace's post.

Server 2016 uses EC2Launch and I haven't yet seen how it's possible to run a script at every boot. You can run a script on the first boot, but subsequent boots will not run it.