- build the News Crawler
- install packer
The Amazon machine image for the news crawler is based on the Amazon Linux AMI, HVM (SSD), ebs-backed, 64-bit, us-east-1.
To build the image, run from the root directory of the News Crawler project:
packer build aws/packer/newscrawl-ami.json
The news crawler AMI should be registered on your AWS account. Select it to launch an EC2 instance.