Yes, you need Python 2.7 to run spark-ec2 and most AMIs come with 2.6. Have you tried either:
1. Retrying launch with the --resume option? 2. Increasing the value of the --wait option? Nick On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 3:38 PM, Toby Douglass <t...@avocet.io> wrote: > Gents, > > I have been bringing up a cluster on EC2 using the spark_ec2.py script. > > This works if the cluster has a single slave. > > This fails if the cluster has sixteen slaves, during the work to transfer > the SSH key to the slaves. I cannot currently bring up a large cluster. > > Can anyone shed any light on this issue? > > As an aside, that script does not work out of the box in Amazon EC2 > instances. Python 2.7 must be installed, and then boto for 2.7. > >
