When is ec2 AMI necessary?

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Using Python, Boto, Pandas, and maybe Spark to analyze a bit of data on AWS

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When is ec2 AMI necessary? #14

Open emgrasmeder opened 9 years ago

emgrasmeder commented 9 years ago

If boto's EMR functionality can distribute a task across multiple instances (or whatever), why would I need to make an image in ec2? Is this the wrong way to think about EMR?