Installing FME Server on AWS

HI @deanhowell,

 

Please check out this article on installing FME Desktop on AWS and other cloud machines and let us know if it answers your questions. https://knowledge.safe.com/articles/60408/fme-desktop-on-amazon-aws-ec2.html

 

Cheers,

 

Cat

deanhowell wrote:

Thanks

As we are looking to install the software on AWS cloud on an auto-scaling group, this means that the underlying hardware and OS may be replaced regularly, therefore we would not want to have the license with hardware association to a host id, mac address or a host name.

 

Could you provide me with more details on how your permanent license is tied to hardware and whether you support running of FME server in AWS Autoscaling groups and how we can overcome the requirements specified in the email.

Hi @deanhowell,

 

It looks like this question has come to us at support through your reseller so we can post a definitive answer here once that case is resolved.

 

 

From my understanding, licensing is based on and generated for machine key. So if the hardware changes and the machine key is different, in the web ui you would need to re-request a license as the new machine key won't be able to retrieve the old license. There are rest api requests so on start up you could use those to request a new license.

 

 

Are you planning on auto-scaling the whole of your FME Server deployment, or just engines? If it's just engines and you're not auto-scaling the core then this won't be an issue. From my understanding of auto-scaling, this would only make sense with dynamic engines in FME Server, which will be available in 2020. I don't see a need to set up the FME Core etc.