--- a
+++ b/utils/aws/mime.sh
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+# AWS EC2 instance startup 'MIME' script https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/execute-user-data-ec2/
+# This script will run on every instance restart, not only on first start
+# --- DO NOT COPY ABOVE COMMENTS WHEN PASTING INTO USERDATA ---
+
+Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="//"
+MIME-Version: 1.0
+
+--//
+Content-Type: text/cloud-config; charset="us-ascii"
+MIME-Version: 1.0
+Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
+Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="cloud-config.txt"
+
+#cloud-config
+cloud_final_modules:
+- [scripts-user, always]
+
+--//
+Content-Type: text/x-shellscript; charset="us-ascii"
+MIME-Version: 1.0
+Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
+Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="userdata.txt"
+
+#!/bin/bash
+# --- paste contents of userdata.sh here ---
+--//