Thank You Sean. I was just trying to experiment with the performance of Spark Applications with various worker instances (I hope you remember that we discussed about the worker instances). I thought it would be a good one to try in EC2. So, it doesn't work out, does it?
Thank You On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 8:40 PM, Sean Owen <so...@cloudera.com> wrote: > The free tier includes 750 hours of t2.micro instance time per month. > http://aws.amazon.com/free/ > > That's basically a month of hours, so it's all free if you run one > instance only at a time. If you run 4, you'll be able to run your > cluster of 4 for about a week free. > > A t2.micro has 1GB of memory, which is small but something you could > possible get work done with. > > However it provides only burst CPU. You can only use about 10% of 1 > vCPU continuously due to capping. Imagine this as about 1/10th of 1 > core on your laptop. It would be incredibly slow. > > This is not to mention the network and I/O bottleneck you're likely to > run into as you don't get much provisioning with these free instances. > > So, no you really can't use this for anything that is at all CPU > intensive. It's for, say, running a low-traffic web service. > > On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 2:55 PM, Deep Pradhan <pradhandeep1...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Hi, > > I have just signed up for Amazon AWS because I learnt that it provides > > service for free for the first 12 months. > > I want to run Spark on EC2 cluster. Will they charge me for this? > > > > Thank You >
