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users = [{"id": 40, "name": "Joe Bloggs", "posts": 4},
         {"id": 567, "name": "Jenny Smith", "posts": 3},
         {"id": 3, "name": "Frank Jones", "posts": 54},
         {"id": 46, "name": "Samantha Wills", "posts": 0},
         {"id": 6789, "name": "Ahmed Joseph Naran", "posts": 15}]

def userTransform(user):
    name = user["name"].rsplit(" ", 1)
    return {"first_name": name[0], "last_name": name[1], "posts": user["posts"]}

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# We need the latest epel-release for a RHEL/Centos specific cloud-init
wget http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
rpm -Uvh epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm

# After this finishes you can build an AMI that will process the user data
# with cloud-init. You may also be interested in taking a look at the config
# file at /etc/cloud/cloud.cfg
yum install cloud-init