I’ve also been thinking about creating some instructions for using JetStream.  
I’m an XSEDE campus champion, which means I have some compute time on JetStream 
that I can distribute. If anyone else is interested in testing JetStream let me 
know and I can provide you with some cpu hours to try it out.  It’s also fairly 
easy to get instructional allocations from XSEDE to run classes.  We would have 
to test how long it takes for new XSEDE accounts to get added to an allocation 
(it is site dependent).

Tom Morrell | Research Data Specialist | Caltech Library
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On Jan 27, 2017, at 12:10 PM, C. Titus Brown 
<ctbr...@ucdavis.edu<mailto:ctbr...@ucdavis.edu>> wrote:

Apologies if this is a bit off-topic, but:

Note that in recent months (at least the last 4 months or so) you will
be blocked from starting up a new AWS instance for at least the first few
hours after you first try, until they verify your account.  Presumably this is
to stop people from creating fake accounts and running up compute before being
caught.

This puts a serious monkey wrench in any workshop that doesn't have people
sign up *and try to start a new instance at least the night before the
workshop*.

(This change in AWS practice happened sometime around our workshop at Scripps
Institute of Oceanograph,
https://2016-metagenomics-sio.readthedocs.io/en/latest/, so before October 12,
2016.  We had 17 people unable to start their instances.  Fun fun fun!)

I've talked to some AWS folk about it and so far there has been nothing they
could do other than take a list of accounts to prevalidate (which didn't work
the one time we tried to do it).

Largely for this reason, I'm going to seriously try out JetStream as an
alternative to AWS in the next few months.

best,
--titus

On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 12:00:23PM -0800, Jaime Ashander wrote:
For the recommended instance type, t2.medium, (per
http://www.datacarpentry.org/genomics-workshop/ ) the current costs in N VA
(per https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/on-demand/ ):

t2.medium 2 Variable 4 EBS Only $0.047 per Hour
- Jaime

On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 11:44 AM, Fotis E. Psomopoulos <
fp...@issel.ee.auth.gr<mailto:fp...@issel.ee.auth.gr>> wrote:

If none (or at least the majority) of the participants have a previous AWS
account, they will be eligible for the free tier ??? essentially they will
have to create an amazon account (and probably give their credit card
details) but there will be no cost for using the cloud resources.



That was the case on both times I participated to the DC genomics lesson,
so it might as well be true in other instances as well.



Just my two cents???



Regards,



Fotis



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I can???t speak specifically to the Data Carpentry experience, but when
we???ve done full day AWS training for groups of 20-30 IT Pros at our
university, the whole cost for everyone for the day was approximately $3. A
few cents per person per hour, because nothing external was driving much
traffic to the test sites.



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<discuss-boun...@lists.software-carpentry.org<mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.software-carpentry.org>>]
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Do we know what the approximate cost of using AWS is per student for the
Data Carpentry genomics lessons?



Chris



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University of California, Davis

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