platform-family is not enough, we need to specify the platform

templates/amazon/upstart.conf.erb

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+# statsd - Network daemon for aggregating statistics
+#
+# This is a network service that receives metric data via UDP from other
+# applications. It aggregates this data and flushes it to a storage backend
+# (typically Graphite) at regular intervals.
+#
+description "Network daemon for aggregating statistics"
+author      "Librato"
+
+start on (local-filesystems and net-device-up IFACE!=lo)
+
+respawn
+respawn limit 10 5
+
+chdir <%= node['statsd']['path'] %>
+
+pre-start script
+    NODE_BIN=$(which nodejs || which node)
+    [ -n $NODE_BIN ] || { stop; exit 0; }
+end script
+
+script
+    NODE_BIN=$(which nodejs || which node)
+    su -s /bin/sh -c 'exec "$0" "$@"' <%= node['statsd']['user'] %> -- $NODE_BIN stats.js <%= node['statsd']['config_dir'] %>/config.js 2>&1 >> <%= node['statsd']['log_file'] %>
+end script