# Replicating an EC2 Wowza Server

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/replicating-an-ec2-wowza-server/38620>\
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Created:** [May 30, 2015, 11:18am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/replicating-an-ec2-wowza-server/38620 "2015-05-30T11:18:43Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Adrian\_Berkovits](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/db5fbb/32.png) [@Adrian\_Berkovits](https://community.wowza.com/u/Adrian_Berkovits)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2015, 11:18am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/replicating-an-ec2-wowza-server/38620/1 "2015-05-30T11:18:43Z")

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Hi guys,

I have configured my EC2 Wowza server (from an existing Wowza AMI) and it’s perfect. Now, I have to create 5 more servers with the exact same configuration. It won’t allow me to create my own AMI so what is the best way to replicate this server?

I have 20 Icecast streams being relayed from it so I’d rather find a way to copy the server rather than re-creating each one manually.

Thanks,

Adrian

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**Author:** ![Adrian\_Berkovits](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/db5fbb/32.png) [@Adrian\_Berkovits](https://community.wowza.com/u/Adrian_Berkovits)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2015, 3:33pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/replicating-an-ec2-wowza-server/38620/2 "2015-06-01T15:33:38Z")

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BUMP… thanks.

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**Author:** ![Adrian\_Berkovits](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/db5fbb/32.png) [@Adrian\_Berkovits](https://community.wowza.com/u/Adrian_Berkovits)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2015, 8:33pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/replicating-an-ec2-wowza-server/38620/3 "2015-06-02T20:33:48Z")

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Hi Zoran,

Thanks for the help. That’s great.

Cheers,

Adrian

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**Author:** ![Zoran](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.wowza.com/zoran/32/385_2.png) [@Zoran](https://community.wowza.com/u/Zoran)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2015, 3:13pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/replicating-an-ec2-wowza-server/38620/4 "2015-06-02T15:13:03Z")

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Hi,

You can create a Wowza EC2 startup package that will be applied to every new EC2 instance you create, thus starting additional EC2 instances, that will use the same Wowza setup.

Please see the “[Wowza Streaming Engine for Amazon EC2 User’s Guide](https://www.wowza.com/resources/WowzaStreamingEngineforEC2_UsersGuide.pdf)”, page 29, for a detailed description on how to create and use an AWS Wowza startup package.

Zoran