fastec2: AWS computer management for regular folks

1 · fast.ai · Feb. 15, 2019, midnight
This is part 1 of a series on fastec2. To learn how to run and monitor long-running tasks with fastec2 check out part 2. AWS EC2 is a wonderful system; it allows anyone to rent a computer for a few cents an hour, including a fast network connection and plenty of disk space. I’m particularly grateful to AWS, because thanks to their Activate program we’ve got lots of compute credits to use for our research and development at fast.ai. But if you’ve spent any time working with AWS EC2, then for sett...