Wowza Streaming Engine (Linux PAID)
Wowza Media Systems, Inc. | 4.8.28Linux/Unix, Amazon Linux 2020 - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
Cost trap. Very dangerous product
We no longer have any instance of this product and without reluctance I continue to receive invoices.
This is a nightmare.
The online information on this situation is very deficient if not non-existent.
It does not make us trust the AWS Markewtplace ( AND WOWZA ) at all for future projects.
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Arbitrarily Limited
This has been great for cost management of Wowza servers that don't need to be running 24/7, but that is where the positives end. EC2 has released new instance types, specifically m5, since this image was last updated which are not supported. Attempts to manually migrate to other instance types have failed also. But now that I've deployed my fleet with this AMI, I'm stuck.
Newer instance types
We use Wowza AMIs all around the world and they work pretty good.
Do you have a plan for supporting newer instance types? We use c4.4xlarge EC2 instances in most regions, but in some regions they are not available. Only newer instance type c5.4xlarge is available but your AMI doesn't support it. Could you please add it? Thank!
Easy to setup, Many unsupported instance types
The marketplace AMI is only behind by a patch release so that's pretty good. Setup is easy with the marketplace. My major complain would be the lack of supported instance types. The vendor recommended instance type isn't even available for me to create anymore.
Cost makes no sense and the AMI is lagging behind severly
You can pay $65/mo per instance and install yourself on another AMI ( I suggest using a G2 instance then docker along with https://hub.docker.com/r/sameersbn/wowza/ ) or pay $92.31-$1,915.2 per month (depending on the instance type) for the exact same software. Of course, I assumed the software costs would be similar (and covered by my AWS credits; why they are not) so I found out the hard way.
Also, the AMI doesn't provide G2 support (GPU/NVENC support) and lags behind the release schedule so there's even more reason to use a standard instance or docker-capable AMI with GPU support and their monthly license. Still, be careful because whey they say "per instance", they don't mean "per machine" and they will bill you multiple times if their system "phones home" more than once for any reason. Found that out the hard way also.
g2 instances not available
Why g2 instances are not available? Is there any particular reason for it? We really have the need to utilize NVENC transcoding capability of g2.