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- Setting a default locale
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- Setting a instance hostname
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- Generating instance ssh private keys
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- Adding ssh keys to a users ``.ssh/authorized_keys`` so they can log in
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- Setting up ephemeral mount points
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`Cloud-init`_ 's behavior can be configured via user-data.
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User-data can be given by the user at instance launch time.
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This is done via the ``--user-data`` or ``--user-data-file`` argument to ec2-run-instances for example.
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* Check your local clients documentation for how to provide a `user-data` string
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or `user-data` file for usage by cloud-init on instance creation.
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.. _Cloud-init: https://launchpad.net/cloud-init