# Setting up Wowza on Amazon EC2

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/setting-up-wowza-on-amazon-ec2/37566>\
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Created:** [November 15, 2011, 9:12am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/setting-up-wowza-on-amazon-ec2/37566 "2011-11-15T09:12:44Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Adam\_Claus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/977dab/32.png) [@Adam\_Claus](https://community.wowza.com/u/Adam_Claus)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 9:12am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/setting-up-wowza-on-amazon-ec2/37566/1 "2011-11-15T09:12:44Z")

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Hello there. I have hit a roadblock in my setup. How do I install Wowza on the actual EC2 instance? On page 10 of the instructions I am supposed to stream a video using my “instance-public-domain” but there is nothing in the folder to stream, so nothing works. After that point I cannot log into my server using SSH either. To say I am a newbie to all this is an understatement, but I have been tasked with doing this project, so any help is appreciated.

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**Author:** ![Richard\_Lanham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c68b51/32.png) [@Richard\_Lanham](https://community.wowza.com/u/Richard_Lanham)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2011, 6:57pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/setting-up-wowza-on-amazon-ec2/37566/2 "2011-11-16T18:57:26Z")

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We have pre-built Wowza AMIs. Use these:

[https://www.wowza.com/docs/wowza-streaming-engine-for-amazon-ec2-amis#lickey](https://www.wowza.com/docs/wowza-streaming-engine-for-amazon-ec2-amis#lickey)

These are not the devpay licenses. You have to use your own monthly, daily or perpetual license. They support nDVR, DRM, and Transcoder Addons, which the devpay AMIs don’t.

Richard

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**Author:** ![Richard\_Lanham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c68b51/32.png) [@Richard\_Lanham](https://community.wowza.com/u/Richard_Lanham)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2011, 8:07pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/setting-up-wowza-on-amazon-ec2/37566/3 "2011-11-16T20:07:56Z")

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You probably have to enable TCP port 1935 in your Security Group. Take a look at the Wowza EC2 Guide for more details:

[https://www.wowza.com/resources/WowzaMediaServerForEC2\_UsersGuide.pdf](https://www.wowza.com/resources/WowzaMediaServerForEC2_UsersGuide.pdf)

Richard

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**Author:** ![Adam\_Claus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/977dab/32.png) [@Adam\_Claus](https://community.wowza.com/u/Adam_Claus)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2011, 12:03pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/setting-up-wowza-on-amazon-ec2/37566/4 "2011-11-16T12:03:57Z")

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I found out that my first instance was not in the list of supported clients, so I went through the set up process again with ami-8377beea. My DNS is [ec2-184-73-18-40.compute-1.amazonaws.com](http://ec2-184-73-18-40.compute-1.amazonaws.com) and when I try to play the sample, I don’t get an error that the file was not found, but I also do not get a video playing.

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**Author:** ![Adam\_Claus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/977dab/32.png) [@Adam\_Claus](https://community.wowza.com/u/Adam_Claus)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2011, 12:19pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/setting-up-wowza-on-amazon-ec2/37566/5 "2011-11-16T12:19:26Z")

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Thanks, I know I went through that part before, but I guess I never applied the ports. Thank you for the fast reply.