Setting up Spark on Amazon EC2

To set up a Spark cluster on Amazon EC2, you need to follow the simple steps listed below.

Pre-requisites: In order to access any service of the Amazon cloud, you first have to sign up with Amazon and then navigate to its EC2 service. After that you need to click on the ‘Create key pair’ tab (in the key pair section). You will be given the option of creating and downloading the key pair.

Downloading Spark: You can download Spark on your local machine by running the following command: