I have summarized some of the follow-ups below as discussed: User Data and Meta Data – that can be used for bootstrapping as we discussed and I showed you a demonstration of - documentation: http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/AESDG-chapter-instancedata.html IP Addresses in VPC Auto Scaling Groups: Auto Scaling will automatically assign IP addresses using the DHCP provider ..