Hey Jeremy, This is patched in the 1.0 and 0.9 branches of Spark. We're likely to make a 1.0.1 release soon (this patch being one of the main reasons), but if you are itching for this sooner, you can just checkout the head of branch-1.0 and you will be able to use r3.XXX instances.
- Patrick On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 4:17 PM, Jeremy Lee <unorthodox.engine...@gmail.com> wrote: > Some people (me included) might have wondered why all our m1.large spot > instances (in us-west-1) shut down a few hours ago... > > Simple reason: The EC2 spot price for Spark's default "m1.large" instances > just jumped from 0.016 per hour, to about 0.750. Yes, Fifty times. Probably > something to do with world cup. > > So far this is just us-west-1, but prices have a tendency to equalize across > centers as the days pass. Time to make backups and plans. > > "m3" spot prices are still down at $0.02 (and being new, will be bypassed by > older systems), so it would be REAAALLYY nice if there had been some > progress on that issue. Let me know if I can help with testing and whatnot. > > > -- > Jeremy Lee BCompSci(Hons) > The Unorthodox Engineers
