Overview
Wowza Streaming Engine(TM) server software is a powerful, flexible, solution that powers reliable streaming of high-quality video and audio to any device, anywhere. Built for builders integrating video into their business, Wowza Streaming Engine software running on Amazon EC2 enables you to take advantage of the technology's extensive streaming capabilities as well as the flexibility and scalability of Amazon Web Services. Hosting Wowza Streaming Engine instances on Amazon EC2 is ideally suited to streaming of live events, one-to-many training, webinars, and company meetings and more, due to this setup's global reach. It is also an excellent choice for adding overflow capacity to your own dedicated Wowza software deployments, and for cost-constrained organizations that need the flexibility of starting small but the available capacity to cost-effectively scale as their business grows. With prebuilt Wowza AMIs that can be launched in any Amazon EC2 operational region, using Wowza Streaming Engine software on Amazon EC2 is simple. The licensing uses a bring-your-own-license ("BYOL") Wowza Streaming Engine AMI that also offers access to unlimited transcoding for adaptive streaming, live stream DVR, DRM, and all free Add-Ons.
Highlights
- Any media to any device, anywhere, simplified: takes any video format and reliably delivers it in multiple formats and with the highest possible quality to any connected device, anywhere.
- Dedicated, customizable, and extensible: integrates with third-party systems and includes powerful components that let you build solutions for your evolving streaming needs.
- Security, Performance, and Scalability: includes multiple levels of content security as well as high performance and scalability so you can build your streaming workflow? with confidence
Details
Features and programs
Financing for AWS Marketplace purchases
Pricing
Additional AWS infrastructure costs
Type | Cost |
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EBS General Purpose SSD (gp2) volumes | $0.10/per GB/month of provisioned storage |
Vendor refund policy
License fees paid directly to Wowza Media Systems are not refundable. Please see the Wowza End User License Agreement (https://www.wowza.com/resources/WowzaStreamingEngine-4_LicenseAgreement.pdf ) for more information.
Legal
Vendor terms and conditions
Content disclaimer
Delivery details
64-bit (x86) Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
An AMI is a virtual image that provides the information required to launch an instance. Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) instances are virtual servers on which you can run your applications and workloads, offering varying combinations of CPU, memory, storage, and networking resources. You can launch as many instances from as many different AMIs as you need.
Version release notes
Additional details
Usage instructions
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Launch the instance with One Click
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Log in to Wowza Streaming Engine Manager here: http://[public-domain-name]:8088/enginemanager
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Sign in with the username wowza and a password. The password is the Instance ID. (See Get the instance public domain name and ID.)
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If you launched a Wowza Streaming Engine BYOL AMI but didn't supply a license for Wowza Streaming Engine, you must replace the temporary license key. Do the following:
A. Click the Server tab at the top of the page, and then click Server Setup in the contents pane.
B. On the Server Setup page, click Edit, and then replace the temporary license key value in the Lince Keys box with your Subscription or Perpetual license key for Wowza Streaming Engine. If applicable, add separate license keys for the Transcoder, nDVR, and DRM features. Each license key should be on a separate line.
C. Click Save, and then click Restart Now when prompted to apply changes.
Full instructions for setting up and managing Wowza Streaming Engine on Amazon EC2 can be found in the Wowza Streaming Engine for EC2 Users Guide: https://www.wowza.com/docs/wowza-streaming-engine-for-linux-on-amazon-ec2
Support
Vendor support
Paid support is available from our streaming experts. Our premium support plans offer various levels of service so you can get the help you need, when you need it. Learn more about premium support plans. (https://www.wowza.com/support/plans-and-services ). Online technical articles about deploying Wowza on Amazon are available from the Wowza Streaming Engine EC2 Support Center (https://www.wowza.com/docs/amazon ).
AWS infrastructure support
AWS Support is a one-on-one, fast-response support channel that is staffed 24x7x365 with experienced and technical support engineers. The service helps customers of all sizes and technical abilities to successfully utilize the products and features provided by Amazon Web Services.
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Customer reviews
Useless Redhat Instance with no package upstream. DIY yourself.
Needed to fire an instance up for SRT development. only to find after wasting an hour trying to get gstreamer installed for seperate testing I could not get it installed. Redhat is like the worst Linux ever and terrible to manage. That bad I wasted time trying to install something that didn't exist as its upstream package rep is not in sync with anything else.
Going to have to DIY my own debian and use apt. At least I can install gstreamer without wasting time in my R&D phase being on a timer and all.
Disappointing
It's disappointing that Wowza's AMI doesn't support high-throughput networking via Elastic Networking Adapter. From Amazon's documentation on ENA: "Enhanced networking provides higher bandwidth, higher packet-per-second (PPS) performance, and consistently lower inter-instance latencies."
This adapter is available on lots of EC2 instance types, including the new M5 generation, providing 10 Mbit performance. Comparing M4.large to M5.large, the M5 is cheaper, and way better network performance: 0.47 Gbit/s on M4.large and 10.04 Gbit/s on M5.large.
Alas, I can't use Wowza's AMI to take advantage of this massive upgrade in performance.
Come on Wowza. Latency matters in streaming!
Using Wowza AMI on EC2 since 2011
Six years of experience using Wowza AMI on Amazon EC2 (m3 machine). We bring our own license from Wowza (BYOL). Very reliable 24/7 live streaming for small Public Access station. Cost is reasonable for our limited budget. We know Amazon takes good care of their compute infrastructure and we see it in the reliability of the product.