[GUIDE] The "No BS Amazon AWS Protoshare Cloud Mining Guide"

[K20]

Thinking about making a guide for ypool on Amazon?

Would be greatly appreciated   

Added a new thread

Back to the whole amazon debacle.  My bills only show values in brackets.  When I queried this, they said I was in the free tier and still had my credit.

This month, my bill is in brackets, yet the total is £0


Confused..

[hammerbrain]

Thinking about making a guide for ypool on Amazon?

Would be greatly appreciated   

[zvs]

Anybody knows how we will be charged after the 100 free credit? They just stop the server or charge us from credit card directly? I don't even know where to check my used credit, it always displays 0, but I have been running it for 2 days...

Has anyone been able to get an EC2 server recently?

The $100 free still works as its been applied to my account, but getting a spot is impossible:

open
capacity-oversubscribed

Edit.  Had to up to $1. Can't get yvgprotominor working on it now...

Eh, haven't had a problem at all

can get 8 core for 7 cents

ed:  though you'd need to get it for about 3 cents now for it to be worth it

amazon will charge you for overage

i also had a hard time locating the actual bill.  i think it only updates once a day.  go to billing & there should be a 'Bills' under 'Dashboard' in that menu... click on Bills... then it should break it down like so

Details   Total
AWS Service Charges   $11.54
Data Transfer   $0.00
Elastic Compute Cloud   $10.96
Simple Notification Service   $0.00
GST to be collected   $0.00
US Sales Tax to be collected   $0.58
VAT to be collected   $0.00

which means I went over a bit.. but you can click on details and it should give breakdown of your fees & so you can see how close you are to passing that credit

[ripplexiaoshan]

Anybody knows how we will be charged after the 100 free credit? They just stop the server or charge us from credit card directly? I don't even know where to check my used credit, it always displays 0, but I have been running it for 2 days...

Has anyone been able to get an EC2 server recently?

The $100 free still works as its been applied to my account, but getting a spot is impossible:

open
capacity-oversubscribed

Edit.  Had to up to $1. Can't get yvgprotominor working on it now...

Eh, haven't had a problem at all

can get 8 core for 7 cents

ed:  though you'd need to get it for about 3 cents now for it to be worth it

[zvs]

Has anyone been able to get an EC2 server recently?

The $100 free still works as its been applied to my account, but getting a spot is impossible:

open
capacity-oversubscribed

Edit.  Had to up to $1. Can't get yvgprotominor working on it now...

Eh, haven't had a problem at all

can get 8 core for 7 cents

ed:  though you'd need to get it for about 3 cents now for it to be worth it

[K20]

Seems now it goes up to 3$...

Go for cc2.8xlarge instead.  Cheaper and 500cm

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[ripplexiaoshan]

Seems now it goes up to 3$...

[K20]

Has anyone been able to get an EC2 server recently?

The $100 free still works as its been applied to my account, but getting a spot is impossible:

open
capacity-oversubscribed

Edit.  Had to up to $1. Can't get yvgprotominor working on it now...

[moxuanyuan]

thanks , and mark 

[smokim11]

The Amazon page for the free $100 credit appears to have 404'd.

Would anyone be interested in a post outlining all of the cloud computing services that offer free trials that can be used for mining?

These are the ones I found that are worth mining PTS on, others I found are a few days only and very very low specs.

https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=887.0

[lordfirefox]

I just realized my final draft somehow removed the line:

Code: [Select]


sudo apt-get install build-essential libssl-dev libboost-all-dev yasm unzip mc

It appears in the earlier drafts of the document however. Not sure why or how it vanished from my Google Doc's version. (And no it's not set editable by the public)

Anyways I corrected it.

[jizzbeard]

The Amazon page for the free $100 credit appears to have 404'd.

Would anyone be interested in a post outlining all of the cloud computing services that offer free trials that can be used for mining?

[zvs]

hi guys

i tried to mine on an AWS.
But i have this probleme when i'm installing ptsminer (with the makefile)

g++ -Wl,-z,relro -Wl,-z,now  -o ptsminer  obj/cpuid.o obj/sha512_avx.o obj/sha512_sse4.o obj/sha512.o obj/sph_sha2.o obj/sph_sha2big.o obj/main_poolminer.o  -Wl,-Bdynamic -l boost_system -l boost_filesystem -l boost_program_options -l boost_thread -l boost_chrono -Wl,-Bdynamic -l z -l dl -l pthread
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lz
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [ptsminer] Error 1


Do you have an idea?

Thanks

You are missing library "lz"

if you have zlib1g-dev already and it doesn't work, try using the 32bit lib32z1-dev

[HCarvalho]

Is it true that AWS is cracking down on all those that are using EC2 instances to mine? Making them paying full price instead of spot isntance prices? Or this rumour is just an hoax to make spot instances prices go down?

That's the first I've heard of it. Why would amazon deny themselves revenu by clamping down on PTS miners? That doesn't make any sense.

no idea, I only know that on monday I received a call from an UK number from AWS to confirm it was me using my account

[lordfirefox]

Is it true that AWS is cracking down on all those that are using EC2 instances to mine? Making them paying full price instead of spot isntance prices? Or this rumour is just an hoax to make spot instances prices go down?

That's the first I've heard of it. Why would amazon deny themselves revenu by clamping down on PTS miners? That doesn't make any sense.