Allow binary to be sent to user data #416
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This is necessary because gzip files can be passed in as user data when
launching instances. Such as in this issue: aws/aws-cli#814
Before if you ran:
You would get decoding errors because it is assumed the input to
--user-data
is text.Now with this PR the command will work with both text and binary. I tested it manually as well and both my gzip compressed script and text-based shell script ran when I launched my instances.
cc @jamesls @danielgtaylor