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Hi all,

I have an issue with the AutoScalingGroup AWS.
I need to specify my own userData in the launch configuration. Yet I am unable to remove the suffix from and therefore predict the stack name.
As a result I can do whatever i want in my user data but can never send the signal to cloudformation and my stack creation always fail

Any pointer on how to get out of this?

Do you mean the autoname suffix (<https://www.pulumi.com/docs/intro/concepts/resources/names/#autonaming>)?

If so you can always just set the resource name explicitly

<@U03KJEP6H1Q> you can retrieve the ASG from within the user data:

```# cloudformation stack name
STACK_NAME=$(aws ec2 describe-instances --instance-id $(curl -s <http://169.254.169.254/latest/dynamic/instance-identity/document> | jq .instanceId -r) --region eu-west-1 --query "Reservations[*].Instances[*].Tags[?Key=='aws:cloudformation:stack-name'].Value" --output text)
# aws region
REGION=$(curl -s <http://169.254.169.254/latest/dynamic/instance-identity/document> | jq .region -r)
# the name of the ASG this instance is in
ASG_NAME=$(aws ec2 describe-instances --instance-id $(curl -s <http://169.254.169.254/latest/dynamic/instance-identity/document> | jq .instanceId -r) --region eu-west-1 --query "Reservations[*].Instances[*].Tags[?Key=='aws:autoscaling:groupName'].Value" --output text)```

<@U02J3T6A8LB> thank you! as far as I could see, there is no option to do that on the autoscaling group (not on cluster.addAutoscalingGroup and cluster.createAutoScalingGroup)

<@UCWG26BH7> I think that will work!! thank you

you'll need to make sure it has an IAM role that allows it to read those values of course