Yes, Internet is fine, I can ping 8.8.8.8. Regarding logs, see below. Address 10.73.21.215 is my dns, based on the ip 169.254.169.254 appearing in logs , it looks like some dns name was not resolved correctly . I added public dns to network interface config and rebooted , will see in a few
ubuntu@minemeld:~$ tail /var/log//cloud-init.log
Mar 1 21:49:28 minemeld [CLOUDINIT] util.py[DEBUG]: Read 14 bytes from /proc/uptime
Mar 1 21:49:28 minemeld [CLOUDINIT] util.py[DEBUG]: Cloud-init v. 0.7.5 finished at Wed, 01 Mar 2017 21:49:28 +0000. Datasource DataSourceNone. Up 227.83 seconds
Mar 1 21:49:28 minemeld [CLOUDINIT] util.py[DEBUG]: Writing to /var/lib/cloud/instance/boot-finished - wb: [420] 52 bytes
Mar 1 21:49:28 minemeld [CLOUDINIT] cc_final_message.py[WARNING]: Used fallback datasource
Mar 1 21:49:28 minemeld [CLOUDINIT] helpers.py[DEBUG]: config-power-state-change already ran (freq=once-per-instance)
Mar 1 21:49:28 minemeld [CLOUDINIT] cloud-init[DEBUG]: Ran 11 modules with 0 failures
Mar 1 21:49:28 minemeld [CLOUDINIT] util.py[DEBUG]: Creating symbolic link from '/run/cloud-init/result.json' => '../../var/lib/cloud/data/result.json'
Mar 1 21:49:28 minemeld [CLOUDINIT] util.py[DEBUG]: Reading from /proc/uptime (quiet=False)
Mar 1 21:49:28 minemeld [CLOUDINIT] util.py[DEBUG]: Read 14 bytes from /proc/uptime
Mar 1 21:49:28 minemeld [CLOUDINIT] util.py[DEBUG]: cloud-init mode 'modules' took 0.076 seconds (0.08)
ubuntu@minemeld:~$ tail /var/log//cloud-init-output.log
2017-03-01 21:45:45,199 - util.py[WARNING]: Failed accessing user data.
2017-03-01 21:47:15,313 - url_helper.py[WARNING]: Calling 'http://169.254.169.254/2009-04-04/meta-data/instance-id' failed [50/120s]: request error [(<urllib3.connectionpool.HTTPConnectionPool object at 0x7f3fd7394a90>, 'Connection to 169.254.169.254 timed out. (connect timeout=50.0)')]
2017-03-01 21:48:06,367 - url_helper.py[WARNING]: Calling 'http://169.254.169.254/2009-04-04/meta-data/instance-id' failed [101/120s]: request error [(<urllib3.connectionpool.HTTPConnectionPool object at 0x7f3fd7394bd0>, 'Connection to 169.254.169.254 timed out. (connect timeout=50.0)')]
2017-03-01 21:48:24,390 - url_helper.py[WARNING]: Calling 'http://169.254.169.254/2009-04-04/meta-data/instance-id' failed [119/120s]: request error [(<urllib3.connectionpool.HTTPConnectionPool object at 0x7f3fd7394a90>, 'Connection to 169.254.169.254 timed out. (connect timeout=17.0)')]
2017-03-01 21:48:25,391 - DataSourceEc2.py[CRITICAL]: Giving up on md from ['http://169.254.169.254/2009-04-04/meta-data/instance-id'] after 120 seconds
2017-03-01 21:49:28,426 - util.py[WARNING]: Failed to fetch password from virtual router 10.73.21.215
Cloud-init v. 0.7.5 running 'modules:config' at Wed, 01 Mar 2017 21:49:28 +0000. Up 227.45 seconds.
Cloud-init v. 0.7.5 running 'modules:final' at Wed, 01 Mar 2017 21:49:28 +0000. Up 227.76 seconds.
Cloud-init v. 0.7.5 finished at Wed, 01 Mar 2017 21:49:28 +0000. Datasource DataSourceNone. Up 227.83 seconds
2017-03-01 21:49:28,990 - cc_final_message.py[WARNING]: Used fallback datasource
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