Synopsis: "AWS JIRA DC CloudFormation template does not apply Catalina options when specified. I have tested with quotations around the catalina options and without. They are not applied to the nodes upon creation, nor when the Stack is auto scaled."

 Further investigation: 

Bitbucket's Data Center Template assigned the CatalinaOpts in the bash_profile (Link to Repo)

            /home/atlbitbucket/.bash_profile:
              content:
                !Join
                  - "\n"
                  -
                    - if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then
                    -     . ~/.bashrc
                    - fi
                    - !Sub ["export CATALINA_OPTS=\"${CatalinaOpts}\"", CatalinaOpts: !Ref CatalinaOpts]
              mode: 000644
              owner: atlbitbucket
              group: atlbitbucket

JIRA does not seem to set anything for the bash_profile, which is why it is not setting CATALINA OPTS anywhere. The fix would be to follow a similar pattern to creating a .bash_profile with similar CATALINA_OPTS.