Why Your Bootstrap Script Fails on Amazon Linux 2023 (and How to Fix It)
If you recently migrated from Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) to Amazon Linux 2023 (AL2023), you may have encountered a frustrating scenario: your EC2 instance launches successfully, but your applications aren’t running. The culprit is often the User Data (bootstrap) script. AL2023 introduces strict security defaults and architectural changes that break many legacy bash scripts. In…
