You can try also S3 and then copy it after your instances are up. If it might help.
On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 10:54 PM, Marco Didonna <[email protected]>wrote: > On 5 March 2012 18:10, Ashish <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Is there a way through which we can pass user data to ec2 instances, > > while firing up hadoop or other clusters? > > > > -- > > thanks > > ashish > > Well speaking of hadoop you can't pass anything until the full cluster > has been initialized. After that just use the simple hadoop fs > -copyfromlocal command, I'm sure you're familiar with it. > > Regards, > MD > -- Ashwanth Kumar / ashwanthkumar.in
