POV–Ray on Amazon EC2

Initial setup

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

create an EC2 instance with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:

• 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:

$ 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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