How to run userData on EC2 instance

[vishalailani]

Hello,

I am creating an EC2 instance with cdktf in ts. i am passing userData in its config in string form, but it is not getting executed on instance. userData is there in instance but not getting executed. Am I missing something to run userData on instance ?

[jsteinich]

A couple things to check:

• Userdata only applies if a new instance is being created
• Make sure it is a valid script. See Run commands on your Linux instance at launch - Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud for more details