AWS - Education account cannot create cluster, insufficient EC2 permission

Question

My education AWS account cannot create a cluster. It gives me such error

Core - 2: Service role EMR_DefaultRole has insufficient EC2 permissions.

I have searched the AWS support centre and the web, and barely can any solution.
I've tried to contact the AWS expert team, but somehow I cannot contact them.

This error is encountered when I try to create a PySpark EMR with 4 r5.xlarge cores. If the number of the cores reduces to 2, and the type change to m5.2xlarge, the cluster can be created without error.

The account type is AWS Educate Starter Account.

Any suggestion will be appreciated. :)

Answer 1

The AWS Educate Starter Account is very limited.

It only allows the following instances:

"t2.small","t2.micro","t2.nano","m4.large","c4.large","c5.large","m5.large","t2.medium","m4.xlarge","t2.nano","c4.xlarge","c5.xlarge","t2.2xlarge","m5.2xlarge","t2.large","t2.xlarge","m5.xlarge"

As you can see, instance r5.xlarge is not permitted. However, m5.2xlarge is allowed, thus it works for you.