Error: Jobs do not launch without warning (label-job-create-web)

[cellistigs]

When running jobs with label-job-create-web, it appears that AWS has changed their handling of the parameter BlockDurationMinutes, handling the dedicated duration spot instances. In the developer side, we see the following message:

• 'Error': {'Code': 'InvalidParameterValue', 'Message': 'BlockDurationMinutes is not a valid parameter.'}...}
• This issue could affect just one of our analyses, or multiple.
• Hypothesis: This issue should only be an issue for jobs where:
  • a duration parameter is not provided (thus defaulting to 20 mins)
  • spot instance acquisition is requested
  • the command ec2_resource.create_instances then fails with the above error code.

Todo:

• test this hypothesis
• update the default spot job request length to be 0.
• update all analyses to be safe.
• consider replacements for "save" instances.

[cellistigs]

If hypothesis is true, edit lines 182, 305, 444, in protocols/utilsparam/ec2.py to reduce the default spot job request length, and relaunch.