One reason could be that the keys are in a different region. Need to create the keys in us-east-1-North Virginia. Cheers <k/>
On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 7:45 AM, Sam Taylor Steyer <sste...@stanford.edu> wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to launch an EC2 cluster from spark using the following > command: > > ./spark-ec2 -k HackerPair -i [path]/HackerPair.pem -s 2 launch > HackerCluster > > I set my access key id and secret access key. I have been getting an error > in the "setting up security groups..." phase: > > Invalid value 'null' for protocol. VPC security groups must specify > protocols explicitly. > > My project partner gets one step further and then gets the error > > The key pair 'JamesAndSamTest' does not exist. > > Any thoughts as to how we could fix these problems? Thanks a lot! > Sam >