diff --git a/README.textile b/README.textile
index 57ae2a4..8aae06b 100644
--- a/README.textile
+++ b/README.textile
@@ -217,6 +217,8 @@ Options:
                         launched. (default: None).
     -b BID, --bid=BID   The maximum bid price per spot instance (default:
                         None).
+    -q PROFILE, --profile=PROFILE
+                        The iam instance profile. (default: None).
 
   attack:
     Beginning an attack requires only that you specify the -u option with
diff --git a/beeswithmachineguns/bees.py b/beeswithmachineguns/bees.py
index ddba869..81466f6 100644
--- a/beeswithmachineguns/bees.py
+++ b/beeswithmachineguns/bees.py
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@
 from sets import Set
 
 STATE_FILENAME = os.path.expanduser('~/.bees')
-
+HEADER = {'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.11 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/23.0.1271.64 Safari/537.11'}
 # Utilities
 
 @contextmanager
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ def _get_security_group_id(connection, security_group_name, subnet):
 
 # Methods
 
-def up(count, group, zone, image_id, instance_type, username, key_name, subnet, bid = None):
+def up(count, group, zone, image_id, instance_type, username, key_name, subnet, bid = None, profile = None):
     """
     Startup the load testing server.
     """
@@ -185,7 +185,8 @@ def up(count, group, zone, image_id, instance_type, username, key_name, subnet,
             security_group_ids=[groupId],
             instance_type=instance_type,
             placement=placement,
-            subnet_id=subnet)
+            subnet_id=subnet,
+            instance_profile_arn=profile)
 
         # it can take a few seconds before the spot requests are fully processed
         time.sleep(5)
@@ -203,7 +204,8 @@ def up(count, group, zone, image_id, instance_type, username, key_name, subnet,
                 security_group_ids=[groupId],
                 instance_type=instance_type,
                 placement=placement,
-                subnet_id=subnet)
+                subnet_id=subnet,
+                instance_profile_arn=profile)
 
         except boto.exception.EC2ResponseError as e:
             print("Unable to call bees:", e.message)
@@ -333,7 +335,7 @@ def _sting(params):
     basic_auth = params['basic_auth']
 
     # Create request
-    request = Request(url)
+    request = Request(url, headers=HEADER)
 
     # Need to revisit to support all http verbs.
     if post_file:
@@ -873,7 +875,7 @@ def hurl_attack(url, n, c, **options):
 
     print('Stinging URL so it will be cached for the attack.')
 
-    request = Request(url)
+    request = Request(url, headers=HEADER)
     # Need to revisit to support all http verbs.
     if post_file:
         try:
diff --git a/beeswithmachineguns/main.py b/beeswithmachineguns/main.py
index 329ba4c..5691805 100644
--- a/beeswithmachineguns/main.py
+++ b/beeswithmachineguns/main.py
@@ -85,6 +85,9 @@ def parse_options():
     up_group.add_option('-b', '--bid', metavar="BID", nargs=1,
                         action='store', dest='bid', type='float', default=None,
                         help="The maximum bid price per spot instance (default: None).")
+    up_group.add_option('-q', '--profile', metavar="PROFILE", nargs=1,
+                        action='store', dest='profile', type='string', default=None,
+                        help="The iam instance profile. (default: None).") 
 
     parser.add_option_group(up_group)
 
@@ -199,11 +202,11 @@ def parse_options():
                                                             options.zone, options.instance,
                                                             options.type,options.login,
                                                             options.key, options.subnet,
-                                                            options.bid)).start()
+                                                            options.bid,options.profile)).start()
                     #time allowed between threads
                     time.sleep(delay)
         else:
-            bees.up(options.servers, options.group, options.zone, options.instance, options.type, options.login, options.key, options.subnet, options.bid)
+            bees.up(options.servers, options.group, options.zone, options.instance, options.type, options.login, options.key, options.subnet, options.bid, options.profile)
 
     elif command == 'attack':
         if not options.url: