EC-2: Free-Tier

Provision

This is one is using free-tier, hence free machines on AWS but with limited resources

In AWS > EC 2 > Launch Instance and choose these settings:

• Type: AWS Linux 2023 type
• Size: t2.micro
• Key Pair: Yours
• Security Group: Allowing ssh from your IP
• Volume: 30GB

Important: Once launched, add in security groups the following port: 4242 as Custom TCP to your IP

Note: It is possible to use non-free-tier machines with better power (cpu/memory especially) Note: It is possible to use other OS, as long as Java 17 can be installed, this is just an example

Installation

Then ssh to it (using its public name and ec2-user) and follow these steps:

1. Install Java :

sudo yum -y install java-17-amazon-corretto

2. Download & extract Datagen:

 wget https://datagen-repo.s3.eu-west-3.amazonaws.com/1.0.0/standalone/datagen-standalone-files.tar.gz 
 tar -xvzf datagen-standalone-files.tar.gz
 cd datagen_standalone-1.0.0/

3. Launch it:

./launch.sh \
  --min-mem=512M \
  --max-mem=1G \
  --log-dir=/tmp/datagen/ \
  --load-default-models=false

Access

Access UI using: http as protocol, the full hostname of PUBLIC (found as Public IPv4 DNS) and port 4242 as an example: http://ec2-51-44-11-41.eu-west-3.compute.amazonaws.com:4242

Use admin/admin as user/password to connect and start to generate data:

Custom Configuration

Later to launch it in background process, add option: --launch-with-nohup=true, for example:

./launch.sh \
  --min-mem=512M \
  --max-mem=1G \
  --log-dir=/tmp/datagen/\
  --load-default-models=false \
  --launch-with-nohup=true