Alright, I uploaded the 300-meg half-built binary to each AWS node, added some Xamarin apt repositories to my sources, installed mono-complete (since mono-runtime can’t actually start ES but the error message is not clear), and started bringing up my cluster. I had this happen on two nodes in the course of starting it (when I brought the third node online), which was weird:
[29815,26,20:07:39.950] CLUSTER HAS CHANGED (TCP connection lost to [10.0.0.112:1112])
Old:
VND {e55df42b-2688-4d2a-8a24-dfaffe9bb901} [Master, 10.0.0.97:1112, n/a, 10.0.0.97:1113, n/a, 10.0.0.97:2112, 10.0.0.97:2113] 737777847/737778396/737778396/E1370@737677222:{5edc6cc8-fd0b-4f3a-aa83-b63d2abc10ef} | 2015-04-22 20:07:39.779
VND {58c60bc6-7cba-45e2-a28c-f8813f5cd524} [ShuttingDown, 10.0.0.38:1112, n/a, 10.0.0.38:1113, n/a, 10.0.0.38:2112, 10.0.0.38:2113] 737777847/737778396/737778396/E1370@737677222:{5edc6cc8-fd0b-4f3a-aa83-b63d2abc10ef} | 2015-04-22 20:07:39.950
VND {48560ff5-60d0-441c-aa1b-12a931115de8} [Master, 10.0.0.112:1112, n/a, 10.0.0.112:1113, n/a, 10.0.0.112:2112, 10.0.0.112:2113] 1098063316/1098079880/1098079651/E1372@729963254:{9db43a27-ce24-42a2-99c0-cdb966e2d8af} | 2015-04-22 20:07:39.788
New:
VND {e55df42b-2688-4d2a-8a24-dfaffe9bb901} [Master, 10.0.0.97:1112, n/a, 10.0.0.97:1113, n/a, 10.0.0.97:2112, 10.0.0.97:2113] 737777847/737778396/737778396/E1370@737677222:{5edc6cc8-fd0b-4f3a-aa83-b63d2abc10ef} | 2015-04-22 20:07:39.779
VND {58c60bc6-7cba-45e2-a28c-f8813f5cd524} [ShuttingDown, 10.0.0.38:1112, n/a, 10.0.0.38:1113, n/a, 10.0.0.38:2112, 10.0.0.38:2113] 737777847/737778396/737778396/E1370@737677222:{5edc6cc8-fd0b-4f3a-aa83-b63d2abc10ef} | 2015-04-22 20:07:39.950
VND {48560ff5-60d0-441c-aa1b-12a931115de8} [Master, 10.0.0.112:1112, n/a, 10.0.0.112:1113, n/a, 10.0.0.112:2112, 10.0.0.112:2113] 1098063316/1098079880/1098079651/E1372@729963254:{9db43a27-ce24-42a2-99c0-cdb966e2d8af} | 2015-04-22 20:07:39.951