public UserData getLoadBalancerUserData() throws EC2Exception {
UserData userData = new UserData();
try {
byte[] bytes = AutoscaleUtil.getBytesFromFile(new File(pLoadBalancerPayload));
BASE64Encoder encoder = new BASE64Encoder();
String userDataStr = encoder.encode(bytes);
userData.setData(userDataStr);
} catch (IOException e) {
autoscaleUtil.handleException("Cannot read data from payload file", e);
}
return userData;