POV–Ray on Amazon EC2

Initial setup

To create a dedicated EC2 instance for POV-Ray 3.7 with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:

• Sign in to Amazon Web Services (AWS) Console at https://aws.amazon.com :

• Click "Compute -> EC2 -> Launch Instance":

• Select "Ubuntu Server 14.04 LTS (HVM), SSD Volume Type - ami-9abea4fb":

• Select "Filter by: Compute optimized":

• Select "Type: c4.8xlarge" and click "Next: Configure Instance Details":

• Select "Auto-assign Public IP: Enable" and click "Review and Launch":

• Select an existing key pair or create a new key pair and click "Launch instance":

Setup ssh on your computer

• Download the ec2.pem key from the EC2 Management Console and copy it to ~/.ssh/ec2.pem.

• Set permissions:

$ chmod 400 ~/.ssh/ec2.pem

• Add to your ~/ssh/config the following lines:

$ tail -n 7 ~/.ssh/config

Host ec2
 Hostname ec2-52-25-43-224.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com # your EC2 hostname
 User ubuntu
 IdentitiesOnly yes
 IdentityFile ~/.ssh/ec2.pem

• Check that ssh works:

  You should be able to login to the instance without entering a password.

$ ssh ec2

Setup POV-Ray, ffmpeg, youtube-upload

ubuntu@ec2~$ sudo apt-get -y install make povray ...

Upload your first POV-Ray scene to the EC2 instance and start the rendering process

• To be written..

Upload your first POV-Ray movie to YouTube:

• To be written..