I made this a while back that utilizes shell script and AWS cli to spin up and cloud init to run things https://github.com/nijave/cloud-init-golden-image https:

I made this a while back that utilizes shell script and AWS cli to spin up and cloud init to run things https://github.com/nijave/cloud-init-golden-image https://github.com/nijave/cloud-init-golden-image For this type of use case AWS has managed services like Batch, ECS, or even auto scaling groups that can make this easier depending on what you're trying to achieve. ECS with Fargate executors is fairly easy to run arbitrary things inside a VPC