wowza server trial version on EC2

Wowza Streaming Engine
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Hi All,

I am planning to live streaming on the iPhone using wowza server on EC2. I have tested the live streaming with installing the wowza server on my local system.

Now, I want ask few question:

  1. Is EC2 server available with preinstalled latest wowza server?

  2. If Yes, then how I can get the wowza server preinstalled on EC2 server?

  3. When I get the EC2 server with installed wowza server, I think, I may need to enter my license key. If I can use my trial license key for the moment? If the setup properly works then, I am planning to buy perceptual license.

Please help me and guide me for my setup.

Thanks in advance.

Manoj Kumar

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Hello Manoj,

  1. Yes

  2. There are two options. “lickey” uses your existing Wowza license. “devpay” doesn’t require a pre-paid license. See here: https://www.wowza.com/pricing/ec2-streaming.

  3. I don’t think you can use the pre-built AMI with the trial license. In any case, you will still have to pay for the Amazon usage. I do think you can setup an Amazon EC2 instance on your own, install Wowza, and then use your trial license. Amazon even offers a free micro instance which may be good for some limited testing.