Thank You All. I think I will look into paying ~$0.7/hr as Sean suggested. On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 9:01 PM, gen tang <gen.tan...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, > > I am sorry that I made a mistake on AWS tarif. You can read the email of > sean owen which explains better the strategies to run spark on AWS. > > For your question: it means that you just download spark and unzip it. > Then run spark shell by ./bin/spark-shell or ./bin/pyspark. It is useful to > get familiar with spark. You can do this on your laptop as well as on ec2. > In fact, running ./ec2/spark-ec2 means launching spark standalone mode on a > cluster, you can find more details here: > https://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/spark-standalone.html > > Cheers > Gen > > > On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 4:07 PM, Deep Pradhan <pradhandeep1...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Kindly bear with my questions as I am new to this. >> >> If you run spark on local mode on a ec2 machine >> What does this mean? Is it that I launch Spark cluster from my local >> machine,i.e., by running the shell script that is there in /spark/ec2? >> >> On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 8:32 PM, gen tang <gen.tan...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> As a real spark cluster needs a least one master and one slaves, you >>> need to launch two machine. Therefore the second machine is not free. >>> However, If you run spark on local mode on a ec2 machine. It is free. >>> >>> The charge of AWS depends on how much and the types of machine that you >>> launched, but not on the utilisation of machine. >>> >>> Hope it would help. >>> >>> Cheers >>> Gen >>> >>> >>> On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 3:55 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 >>>> >>> >>> >> >
