It seems that http://169.254.169.254/2008-02-01 and http://169.254.169.254/2008-02-01/meta-data are working fine, it is just http://169.254.169.254/2008-02-01/user-data actually that is throwing the error.

Hi raughan2,

The application appears to be trying to access the instance metadata service, which is described in some detail in the User Guide:

http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/AESDG-chapter-instancedata.html

http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/instancedata-data-categories.html

You might see if you can change it to request http://169.254.169.254/latest/user-data instead; as the previous datestamp may be unavailable in this context.

Regards,
-Jason

http://169.254.169.254/latest/user-data also gives me a 404 error. I am trying to hit this from the Windows AMI image itself. So there shouldn't be anything blocking from my side.

From the documentation you provided, I found this:
"Requests for a general metadata resource (i.e. an URI ending with a/) return a list of available resources or a 404HTTP error code if there is no such resource."

So how do I get user-data to populate on the url? What data should be there?

You can make any sort of data available to your instance by setting the user-data instance attribute.  If you didn't provide any, you'll get a 404 at the latest/user-data URL.

You can specify the data when you start an instance for the first time, and you can change it when the instance is stopped, but you can't change it while the instance is running.

Ok, so the Bamboo server must auto-populate these fields when it initiates an instance. Because I am starting it via the EC2 console, they must not be being created. Does that sound possible?

So sounds like I need to go bang on their door some more.

Thank you for the <span class="HA-spellcheck-error HA-spellcheck-fixed HA-spellcheck-current ">explanatio</span>n.

Hi,

J. Drukman is quite right: if you launch an instance with specifying user data you'll get a 404 when trying to retrieve the user data from within the instance.

Judging from our records of the two instances you launched only 1 had user data specified.

OK, then it is Bamboo specifying the data.

Thank you all very  much. I will focus my attention on the Bamboo side.

-Dennis