diff --git a/examples/templates/aws-linux/main.tf b/examples/templates/aws-linux/main.tf
index 3d6666345658b..3f6e2f83d8871 100644
--- a/examples/templates/aws-linux/main.tf
+++ b/examples/templates/aws-linux/main.tf
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
 Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="userdata.txt"
 
 #!/bin/bash
-sudo -E -u ubuntu sh -c '${coder_agent.dev.init_script}'
+sudo -u ubuntu sh -c '${coder_agent.dev.init_script}'
 --//--
 EOT