# Starting Wowza Streaming Engine

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/starting-wowza-streaming-engine/38948>\
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Created:** [March 13, 2014, 2:46pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/starting-wowza-streaming-engine/38948 "2014-03-13T14:46:09Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Chris\_Mcdonald](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ac8455/32.png) [@Chris\_Mcdonald](https://community.wowza.com/u/Chris_Mcdonald)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2014, 2:46pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/starting-wowza-streaming-engine/38948/1 "2014-03-13T14:46:09Z")

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Is the Streaming Engine automatically started on Amazon EC2 after spinning up a new Wowza Streaming Engine 4: Standard AMI or do I have to start it up via SSH?

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**Author:** ![Chris\_Mcdonald](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ac8455/32.png) [@Chris\_Mcdonald](https://community.wowza.com/u/Chris_Mcdonald)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2014, 2:48pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/starting-wowza-streaming-engine/38948/2 "2014-03-13T14:48:33Z")

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Also the Wowza Streaming Engine Manager…

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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:** [March 13, 2014, 7:51pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/starting-wowza-streaming-engine/38948/3 "2014-03-13T19:51:51Z")

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They should both start up as services when the instance starts up

Richard