AWS and changed location of /data directory breaks permissions of Admin

I installed an 8.1 Instance on AWS using Cloudformation template.
The directions are as in:
https://wiki.nuxeo.com/pages/viewpage.action?spaceKey=PRESALES&title=Creating+and+handling+a+cloud+instance+for+a+lead

Added Volume as stated in steps.
Upon restart, system was not usable from Administrator login;
Any link from the Admin tab went to Workspace.
There was no log out dropdown from the top Administrator username link
Only useful thing in logs was (repeated many times):

2016-02-01 20:53:10,067 WARN [localhost-startStop-1] [org.nuxeo.ecm.directory.DirectoryCache] Your directory configuration for cache is wrong, directory cache will not be used.
2016-02-01 20:53:10,068 WARN [localhost-startStop-1] [org.nuxeo.ecm.directory.DirectoryCache] The cache for entry 'sql-user-entry-cache' has not been found, please check the cache name or make sure you have deployed it
2016-02-01 20:53:10,068 WARN [localhost-startStop-1] [org.nuxeo.ecm.directory.DirectoryCache] The cache for entry without references 'sql-user-entry-cache-without-references' has not been found, please check the cache name or make sure you have deployed it
2016-02-01 20:53:10,096 WARN [localhost-startStop-1] [org.nuxeo.ecm.directory.DirectoryCache] Your directory configuration for cache is wrong, directory cache will not be used.
2016-02-01 20:53:10,096 WARN [localhost-startStop-1] [org.nuxeo.ecm.directory.DirectoryCache] The cache for entry 'sql-group-entry-cache' has not been found, please check the cache name or make sure you have deployed it

Initially the setup was correct, but the issue only came after changing location of /data. Moving it back didn't fix it.
I tried two different ways from a clean setup:

• First, copying /data to different locations AFTER running wizard. Same issue.
• Second, I tried to remap nuxeo.conf data directory BEFORE running wizard, before anything is written to it. Same issue.

Permissions were correct and data was being written but issues with the Administrator login prevented being able to use system.

I followed the same procedures with 7.10 and everything was correct.
I'm not able to create a demo instance of 8.1 points to larger Volume as is needed in many cases.