I had this problem too and fixed it by setting the wait time-out to a larger value: --wait
For example, in "stand alone" mode with default values, a time out of 480 seconds worked for me: $ cd spark-0.9.1/ec2 $ ./spark-ec2 --key-pair=XXXX --identity-file=XXXX --instance-type=r3.large --wait=480 launch XXXX -- View this message in context: http://apache-spark-user-list.1001560.n3.nabble.com/Error-while-launching-ec2-spark-cluster-with-HVM-r3-large-tp5862p6276.html Sent from the Apache Spark User List mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
