New Post: Setting up apps.gerkelab.com for Shiny Apps on Amazon AWS

[gadenbuie]

Blog post idea: how to set up Shiny Apps as a subdomain using Amazon AWS, etc.

There's not a lot of material available out there for picking instances, etc. that are specifically tailored to R/Shiny devs.

For now this issue can just be a dumping place for related links, other resources, steps for development, etc, that we would want to include in the final write up.

[gadenbuie]

Here's the Amazon EC2 pricing for reserved instances, which can be paid upfront on a yearly basis https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/reserved-instances/pricing/

It's hard to tell from there about spec of each instance type, here's a table for comparison https://ec2instances.info/?selected=t2.medium,c5.large,t2.large,m5.large

Instance descriptions

[gadenbuie]

The ramazon package:

Run your shiny App on Amazon AWS launching a function. No setup no pain, just hit that run button!

...and includes a blog post

...but doesn't say anything about instance sizes. (Although a screenshot shows t2.micro.)

[gadenbuie]

This comment at the htmlwidgets repo mentions needing to upgrade from t2.micro to t2.small to be able to run a Shiny app with an rpivotable widget.

[gadenbuie]

Also interesting: https://appsilondatascience.com/tag/shiny/ in particular How we built a Shiny App for 700 users?