title: Running a script on an AWS server
body: <p>I have a script that I need to run once a day that requires a lot of memory.  I would like to run it on a dedicated amazon box.</p>
  
  <p>Is there some automated way to build a box, download all required software (like ruby) and then run my script.  After the script is ran, I would like to shutdown the box.</p>
  
  <p>The two options I can think of are:</p>
  
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  <li>I am thinking about hacking EMR to do this.  (My script is a mapper against an empty directory)</li>
  <li>Chef - This seemed like too much for one simple script.</li>
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