diff --git a/src/config/cloud/aws.ipxe b/src/config/cloud/aws.ipxe
index 6c007398e..d8e4d6ad3 100644
--- a/src/config/cloud/aws.ipxe
+++ b/src/config/cloud/aws.ipxe
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #!ipxe
 
 echo Amazon EC2 - iPXE boot via user-data
-echo CPU: ${cpuvendor} ${cpumodel}
+echo CPU: ${buildarch} ${cpuvendor} ${cpumodel}
 ifstat ||
 
 set attempt:int8 1