Adobe Media Server 5 Extended
Fourteen33 | 5.0.11Linux/Unix, CentOS 6.8 - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
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terrible software
We compared Wowza and AMS 5. Neither was good, but AMS 5 was abominably bad. Setup is extremely annoying, and their management app is written in Flash instead of HTML5 + JavaScript. Absolutely hostile. Would NOT recommend.
If you want an easy solution your best bet is https://www.cine.io/
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confused by instance type reference
The Adobe pricing data uses m1 and m2 instances. The AWS reserved instance documentation shows neither of those. Confusing even to someone who has AWS instances running for years.
Minor problems - works great
Using the comments from @CW and @Kevin, I had this running in only a few minutes. I've basically used these before (DevPay instead of MarketPlace) and the transition was almost seamless.
SSH login problem
For those who cannot login with SSH, try use the user amsadmin and see here:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/adobemediaserver/amazonec2/WS6fc2df2b6d2ce24359910e2812c396a83eb-7fff.2.3.1.html
It is really frustrating in spending hours to find a way to login with ssh.
Not enough information to set up properly.
Needs better instructions.
Here are the issues I encountered and how I fixed them:
1) typo in /etc/fstab. This causes the secondary EBS volume to stay unmounted. Had to move everything out of "/mnt", fix the fstab entry, mount the EBS volume, expand its ext4 filesystem to fill the partition, and then copy everything you moved out of the /mnt folder back into the /mnt folder, which is now on the mounted EBS volume. This typo also causes the machine to fail to reboot, so this needs to be the first step: fix the fstab issue before you try to reboot.
2) For some reason, if you launch the instance using an existing SSH key, you will never be able to log into it. For this reason, you need to create a new SSH key every time you launch one of these images, then make the appropriate modifications to the /home/amsadmin/.ssh/authorized_keys file manually. While the instructions tell you to use putty before using winscp, you can also use openssh as well. ssh into the instance using the newly created/downloaded ssh key, logging in as the user "amsadmin". On login, it will ask you to set your password.
3) As mentioned in #1, the secondary disk volume needs to have its file system expanded using resize2fs before doing any serious streaming or you'll overrun available space within minutes. This is tricky because it works long enough for you to think all is well, until the stream dies.
After repairing all that and creating my own AMI out of the image, all is well.
Hope that helps.
Out of date documentation, and unrefined product
A lot of effort put into this without the proper documentation to get it up and working for a simple live streaming. I got red5 working in couple of hours. AWS and AMS still not 100% done and its been a day.
very confusing configuration
Not able to access via SSH with root which is essential for our application. Also spent countless hours with Amazon support with to results on how to get this working.
Access the web admin interface also a problem because I don't know what user/pass to use. Neither Amazon support .
Not user friendly.
The scenario I wanted to support is serving video files from my server to AWS and stream them to the user from AWS.
One problem I encountered is that there is no one tutorial that covers all the necessary steps. It seems that I have to go through some of the steps from the live streaming tutorials and additional steps from the VOD tutorial.
Even if there was one tutorial to go through all the necessary steps, there are many of them, some pretty complicated and required knowledge and understanding in video streaming technology and terminology even in the middle stages that the platform can do for me (in order to configure them correctly).
I would prefer a product (or a stack of products) that require little to non configuration (have good defaults) and is accessible to a person with little knowledge of video streaming.
This is very frustrating ...
I have the exact same problem. I can not log in to server through ssh.
The product is useless without shell access.
Great but ther is a learning curve
All features work great. Even DVR. The instruction are a little jumbled, so a lot of cross reference is evolved. More step by steps that have been tested recently would be great. Some of the info is clearly out of date.