[QUESTION]Problem using AWS cloud in a student account

[XiangLiu-github]

Hi all,

I am working on using the AWS cloud to run GEOS-CHEM, I have registered my student account, but when I was launching r5.large after clicking Launch Instances, I got an error saying that "You are not authorized to perform this operation. Encoded authorization failure message: ...".

And when I use a normal account, I am able to launch the EC2. Do you have any ideas about this error?

Screenshot:

[JiaweiZhuang]

How did you obtain your student account? Is it the educational account without credit card requirement? It might allow limited instance types. Could you launch t2.micro instance?

[XiangLiu-github]

I registered in https://aws.amazon.com/education/awseducate/, yeah, I was not required with a credit card and there are some remaining credits in my educational account.

I have tried "t2.micro", but it did not work. screenshot:

[JiaweiZhuang]

I just notice this updated AWS Services Supported with AWS Educate Starter Account saying that:

Starter Accounts support only following instance types:
"t2.small","t2.micro","t2.nano","m4.large","c4.large","c5.large
","m5.large","t2.medium","m4.xlarge","t2.nano","c4.xlarge","c
5.xlarge","t2.2xlarge","m5.2xlarge","t2.large","t2.xlarge","m5.
xlarge","a1.medium","a1.large","a1.xlarge"
No Spot Instances supported
No Reserved Instances purchasessupported

[XiangLiu-github]

Yeah, I see, the strange thing is that I could launch a raw "t2.small" instance, but I cannot use the AIMs to launch a "t2.small" instance with GEOS-CHEM tutorial.

[yantosca]

I will close out this issue for now. Feel free to reopen.

[neyranaz]

Hello, I have the same issue. I also tried usingc5.XLarge and it didn't work. Is this bc we are running an AIM from an Educate Account? How did you solve it?

[lizziel]

Hi @neyranaz , we never heard back with resolution on this. I suggest contacting AWS Educate via this contact link and following up here for others to see what the resolution is.

[yantosca]

My sense is that the student accounts don't allow for all instances. You might need to have a credit card backed account. But you should also be able to use at least the $100 of research credits, and possibly obtain more research credits for your work as described here: https://aws.amazon.com/research-credits/faq/.

[neyranaz]

You are right Bob, since march, it does not allow anymore for all instances and it doesn't either allow to launch public images (even with the $100 credit). So new students might be better off running the tutorial from a conventional account and paying the 1 cent. (But not running anything else).

[yantosca]

Thanks. I can close this issue out if there is nothing else.

[yantosca]

I guess AWS is cracking down on student use. Sorry to hear. If we hear of any other ways forward we can let you know.