# Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud and AWS X-Ray
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You can install and run the X-Ray daemon on an Amazon EC2 instance with a user data script. See [Running the X-Ray daemon on Amazon EC2](xray-daemon-ec2.md) for instructions.

Use an instance profile to grant the daemon permission to upload trace data to X-Ray. For more information, see [Giving the daemon permission to send data to X-Ray](xray-daemon.md#xray-daemon-permissions).