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 >>> >> >> >
