ec2 run-instance incorrect description for --user-data

[epinault]

I am using aws cli 1.0. Clearly the doc is incorrect.

whatever is specified after --user-data is passed straight. If I encoded base64, they show base64 encoded on the server metadata as well . So if I wanted to pass a file, I had to do the folllowing in order to get it to work

--user-data file:///path/to/the/file

It would be nice also to add an example to it

[1mentat]

Please fix this and/or specify how to indicate that the data is base64 encoded. This just bit me as well.

[garnaat]

The data does not have to be base64-encoded. You can just supply any data and AWS CLI will do the encoding for you before sending to EC2. The bug is in the documentation, not the code.

[1mentat]

Yes, I know, I base64 encoded the data in accordance with the docs and then checked my instance and was confused. I was later further confused because it seems like the file: syntax was accepted before and now it's file://.

[poshest]

Seems like this is still a problem here

-d, --user-data user_data
The base64-encoded MIME user data for the instances....