On 01/29/2016 12:40 AM, Mike Horvath wrote:
> On 1/29/2016 12:33 AM, Mike Horvath wrote:
>> On 1/28/2016 10:40 PM, William F Pokorny wrote:
 >>>...
>> Thanks for the tip. I read through the tutorial you linked to
>>
>> https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/better-together-amazon-ecs-and-aws-lambda/
>>
>> and this:
>>
>> https://github.com/awslabs/lambda-ecs-worker-pattern
>>
>> but still don't understand what to do. For instance, the instructions
>> don't mention whether you have to install POV-Ray on the VM yourself, or
>> if it comes pre-installed.
>>
>> It is all very complex.
>>
>> Mike
>
> Also, do I need to be running Linux on my local machine in order to
> follow the tutorial?
>
> Mike

:-) Please remember, in me, you are asking someone who hasn't yet done 
it himself.

Firstly, I am not aware of any canned, off the shelf, solution ready to 
run POV-Ray on a render farm / in the cloud. If that is what you want, 
the thread I pointed out isn't the path. If you find a canned solution, 
you are likely to pay extra for the work others have done to provide 
such a service.

Yes, a VM with POV-Ray installed would need to be created. The most 
useful part of the AWS article/tutorial - which is mostly about other 
AWS features - is the section showing how to do this VM set up for 
Ubuntu 14.04 with POV-Ray.

I don't believe you need to be running linux locally.

Bill P.

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