Feb 3 2012
How to re-build a gosmore .pak file on Amazon EC2
(in English because this will mostly be interesting to an international readership 8))
A while ago, I decided that I needed an up-to-date gosmore routing description file for my own little routing server. As it takes some time to build, and needs a lot of memory and processing power, I decided to just let “the cloud” do the dirty work for me.
As I’m confronted with Amazons cloud services daily at work, I chose Amazons EC2/S3 services. They can be quite cost-efficient if you know what to do, but have a tendency to get uber-expensive if you don’t. From my experiences, it should be possible to rebuild a worldwide .pak file for well under $5.
I’m not going to explain all details on how EC2 and S3 work and will use several terms that might be “puzzling” if you never used Amazons services before – take care to dig them up in the Amazon FAQs or documentation. I’ve taken care to put the real crazy stuff in italic.
Continue below for the named crazy stuff 
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