# AWS EC2 user data in node template

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**Created:** [April 13, 2020, 10:46am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/aws-ec2-user-data-in-node-template/17143 "2020-04-13T10:46:31Z")\
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Hi!  
I could not see a way to add user data on node templates for an Amazon EC2 cluster. The background is that I would need to format and mount a local disk at instance launch. Or is there another way to do it?  
Thanks!