Amazon AMI Windows instance + "user-data"?

Question

is it possible to send a "user-data" to the Windows instance at the loading? I know that amazon allow to send it to *nix-based instance, but I can't find any information for Windows.

Thanks for the help, Cyril

Answer 1

Amazon updated EC2Config on Windows AMIs on April 11, 2012 to support scripting through user-data for batch scripts and in May 2012 to support powershell scripts.

<script></script> tags will create and execute a batch file.
<powershell></powershell> tags will create and execute a powershell script.

Note that by default it only runs at instance initialization, so if you want it to execute each time you boot, you have to run the EC2ConfigServiceSettings and tell it to allow this always.