| I built 2 CloudFormation templates to allow you to easily spin up a ton of these things across multiple availability zones. It uses the Amazon Linux AMI that exists in each region instead of the ones listed, and builds up the dependencies and the application on the fly. You can run either of these two templates in any region and it should just work. Download one of these files: With a keypair ( so you can login to the host)
http://files.wordsaboutbytes.com/yahoo-messages-save.cf.txt Without a keypair ( can’t log in locally, but it will run)
http://files.wordsaboutbytes.com/yahoo-messages-save-nokeypa... Then: 1. Open the console ( https://console.aws.amazon.com ) 2. Go to CloudFormation 3. Give your stack a name 4. Browse and select the file you downloaded from above 5. Click Next. 6. Fill in the parameters here ( # of instances, The nick you want to be tracked with at the archive team site, the spot price you are willing to pay, and optionally a keypair if you selected that file). 7. Check the box at the bottom acknowledging that the template will create IAM resources ( used by the host to bootstrap ) 8. Click Continue. 9. Tags if you want, or click continue. 10. Review. Click Continue. 11. Close. This will launch however many instances you told it to, as t1.micro’s, as the spot price you set it to. When you want to stop, you just go and delete the stack in this console and everything should go away. Running this right now in US-West-2, spread across all 3 AZ's there, about 90 instances total, and cranking through things. |