User guide

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Getting started
Last updated 8/28/2014
3 To order Adobe Media Server for Amazon Web Services with your AWS account, go to
www.adobe.com/go/learn_fms_aws_order_en.
4 Read the pricing terms and click Place your order.
There is a $5.00 monthly subscription fee. This fee allows you to run an unlimited number of Adobe Media Server
instances. In addition to the monthly subscription fee, there is a fee for hourly usage and a fee for data transfer.
Note: Read the product license agreement at adobe.com/products/eulas/.
Connect to AMS server using Windows
Log into AMS via SSL
AMS on AWS version 5.0.5 onwards, amsadmin is the new user and the root user is disabled. Also, you are required to
reset the password for amsadmin user, the first time you login into the AMI instance. The steps to log in via SSL, using
PuTTY, are below:
1 Use amsadmin user to login to AMS EC2 instance.
2 If you are logging in for the first time using SSH, use PuTTY to set the password for the amsadmin user. Otherwise
you cannot login using WinSCP.
3 Launch PuTTY. In the Host Name (or IP address) field, enter the public DNS IP of your instance.
4 From the Category pane on the left, choose Connection > SSH > Auth.
5 Browse to locate the private key for authentication and click Open. See Using key pairs to connect to an instance
securelyto understand how to use PuTTYgen application to convert the .pem file to a .ppk file.