Using Web Video Machine on Amazon EC2

A step-by-step guide to use Web Video Machine on Amazon EC2.

Step 1 - Running an Instance

In Amazon EC2 a virtual machine is called an AMI (Amazon Machine Image).
Note: When you run an AMI in EC2, you are charged by Amazon, for its usage based on the amount of time the AMI instance is running as well as the amount of network traffic that flows in and out of the AMI instance.

Blue Pacific Software prepared a public AMI with Web Video Machine installed and configured, ready to start working. All you have to do is create an instance of this AMI to start using Web Video Machine.

Click here for detailed Amazon instructions on how to manage and run an instance.

Note: if you use Mozilla Firefox web browser, you might want to try Elasticfox, an extension for interacting with Amazon EC2. Click here to read the Elasticfox getting started guide.

To run a Web Video Machine instance use the following command:

ec2-run-instances ami-5da74034 -t m1.small -k keypair_name

Important: ami-5da74034 is the AMI ID with Web Video Machine installed you must use to create an instance.