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 # coreos-cloudinit
 
-coreos-cloudinit allows a user to customize CoreOS machiens by providing either an executable script or a cloud-config document as instance user-data. See below to learn how to use these features.
+coreos-cloudinit allows a user to customize CoreOS machines by providing either an executable script or a cloud-config document as instance user-data. See below to learn how to use these features.
 
 
 ## cloud-config