The free tier includes 750 hours of t2.micro instance time per month. http://aws.amazon.com/free/
That's basically a month of hours, so it's all free if you run one instance only at a time. If you run 4, you'll be able to run your cluster of 4 for about a week free. A t2.micro has 1GB of memory, which is small but something you could possible get work done with. However it provides only burst CPU. You can only use about 10% of 1 vCPU continuously due to capping. Imagine this as about 1/10th of 1 core on your laptop. It would be incredibly slow. This is not to mention the network and I/O bottleneck you're likely to run into as you don't get much provisioning with these free instances. So, no you really can't use this for anything that is at all CPU intensive. It's for, say, running a low-traffic web service. On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 2:55 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@spark.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@spark.apache.org
