Amazon EC2 tutorial

[Jack Eden]

I have been working on an updated and expanded Amazon EC2 tutorial for the wiki, and feel that it is fairly mature. Even though i will add more things to it in the future as I learn more, I feel like it is ready to be moved to the wiki and replace the existing EC2 tutorial. I don't have a windows machine, and don't know anything about PuTTY, and changed the way the documentation was written for the PuTTY section, so if someone could just review it and make sure it makes sense, that would be great.

The proposed page currently resides on my user page: http://www.luxrender.net/wiki/User:Jack_eden

Please reply with any thoughts, concerns, or comments.

[Carbonflux]

This is a very good and comprehensive tutorial, I had time to read thru it briefly and it looks ready to put on the wiki page imho. I admit as a linux user I am happy you added a terminal example.

Thank you for putting the time into this

Very helpful.

[Jack Eden]

Done.

http://www.luxrender.net/wiki/Using_Ama ... g_Capacity

[Abel]

Thanks!

I noticed you created a page with a new name, is the content there exactly the same as on the old page? If so, I'd suggest we keep the old page, rename the link on the main page (so that it looks nice but still links to the right page) and delete the new one so that when using the search, people will not accidentally stumble on the old page. Additionally, that guarantees previous versions of the page will still be stored.

[Jack Eden]

I didn't know what I was doing when I replaced the page. if you could help me out and could fix it that would be great. I am still knew to wiki and don't fully understand everything yet.

sorry for the trouble. but I am genuinely trying to help.

[Abel]

if you could help me out and could fix it that would be great/

Done, the main wiki page now points to the old page again (with your new content) while still showing a slightly shorter link. Renaming and deleting pages can only be done by administrators, otherwise it would be too easy to vandalise stuff.

sorry for the trouble. but I am genuinely trying to help.

No worries, thanks again for your contributions!

[Jack Eden]

Abel, thanks for fixing the wiki page.

Also, for anyone interested, the base spot price for most instance types was reduced to 1/3 of what it was several weeks ago.

[zeealpal]

Lust like to say thanks for the tutorial I can now run 8 core slaves for approx $0.13 (was current spot price) the large cpu instance

Tested network rendering with my free micro instance, Very easy to setup, works perfectly Savin the image makes launching a new one super easy, now Ill just add a auto slave launch startup script

[Jack Eden]

Savin the image makes launching a new one super easy, now Ill just add a auto slave launch startup script

Glad the tutorial was helpful.

When you get the script running, will you share how it works. I don't know anything about doing that sort of thing. If I could automate any of the spin-up process, that would be fantastic.

[zeealpal]

Ok... I'm not the most experienced Linux user, but it shouldn't be that hard Perhaps someone can save a public AMI when 1.0 Stable is out? (Not sure if/how to save one as public yet)