diff --git a/cloudbaseinit/metadata/services/ec2service.py b/cloudbaseinit/metadata/services/ec2service.py
index 52446ddf..6f7f0eb9 100644
--- a/cloudbaseinit/metadata/services/ec2service.py
+++ b/cloudbaseinit/metadata/services/ec2service.py
@@ -55,6 +55,10 @@ class EC2Service(base.BaseHTTPMetadataService):
         return self._get_cache_data('%s/meta-data/instance-id' %
                                     self._metadata_version, decode=True)
 
+    def get_user_data(self):
+        return self._get_cache_data('%s/user-data' %
+                                    self._metadata_version)
+
     def get_public_keys(self):
         ssh_keys = []
 
diff --git a/cloudbaseinit/tests/metadata/services/test_ec2service.py b/cloudbaseinit/tests/metadata/services/test_ec2service.py
index 15a66eb0..9e11e7e2 100644
--- a/cloudbaseinit/tests/metadata/services/test_ec2service.py
+++ b/cloudbaseinit/tests/metadata/services/test_ec2service.py
@@ -88,3 +88,11 @@ class EC2ServiceTest(unittest.TestCase):
                        'idx': 'key'}, decode=True)]
         self.assertEqual(expected, mock_get_cache_data.call_args_list)
         self.assertEqual(['fake key'], response)
+
+    @mock.patch('cloudbaseinit.metadata.services.ec2service.EC2Service'
+                '._get_cache_data')
+    def test_get_user_data(self, mock_get_cache_data):
+        response = self._service.get_user_data()
+        path = '%s/user-data' % self._service._metadata_version
+        mock_get_cache_data.assert_called_once_with(path)
+        self.assertEqual(mock_get_cache_data.return_value, response)