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POV–Ray on Amazon EC2

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Jakob Flierl edited this page May 7, 2016 · 16 revisions

Initial setup

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

AWS Console

create an EC2 instance with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:

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

EC2

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

EC2 AMI

Select "Filter by: Compute optimized":

EC2 filter by

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

EC2 c4.8xlarge

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

EC2 automatic public ip enable

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

EC2 SSH

Setup ssh on your computer:

$ 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/pov.pem

Check that ssh works:

$ ssh ec2
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Setup POV-Ray, ffmpeg, youtube-upload

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

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