I may not know enough specifics to be useful, but we ran into issues where the solution was to sort of have servers spin up and bootstrap themselves until they

I may not know enough specifics to be useful, but we ran into issues where the solution was to sort of have servers spin up and bootstrap themselves until they could finally locate and cede control to the chef server. It may have had something to do with how we use AMIs but the way our ops engineer talked about it it seemed to be antithetical to how chef is intended to be used.