How to stop AWS Adobe Flash Media Server instance?

$5 one-time fee for the Account and not for restart. There is also $5 subscription fee every month and again its for account. You have unlimited instances running under you single account and they would charged based on usage on hourly basis as stated here: http://www.adobe.com/products/flashmediaserver/amazonwebservices/ (See Pricing tab)

Shiven has already explained about difference between EBS and local instance store based AMI. Adobe offering is not EBS backed. But you can always attach EBS to your instance, have data there or back up data there and detach it before you stop (basically terminate) your AMI.

Hope this helps

Hi Chris,

If you want to set up an instance that can be Started/Stopped, you have to create an EBS-backed AMI. The ones which are based on a local instance store i.e S3, can only be terminated/rebooted.

For information on how to create an AMI that is EBS backed, please go to this link:

http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/index.html?creating-an-ami-ebs.html

When you launch your Amazon EC2 instances you have the ability to store your root device data on Amazon EBS or the local instance store. By using Amazon EBS, data on the root device will persist independently from the lifetime of the instance. This enables you to stop and restart the instance at a subsequent time, which similar to shutting down your laptop and restarting it when you need it again.

Alternatively, the local instance store only persists during the life of the instance. This is an 'inexpensive' way to launch instances where data is not stored to the root device.

I hope the information was useful.

Thanks,

Shiven

Hi,

Thanks for using FMS on AWS.

i didn't have hands on AWS but can help with some basic check points. They might be useful in general as well.

If you can have access to a shell prompt , the fms services can be started / stopped using few commands.

Go to the fms install directory (it might be either under /opt/adobe or under /mnt/  , ) and you have an executable, with the following commands

> ./server restart/stop/start

There is also one more fms manager executable and you can use it for more operations.

> ./fmsmgr fms start/stop etc

always make sure that the fms server is started correctly . you may check the logs folder under the installation directory for this purpose.

Also, check for the active fms processes. you can quickly use ps aux | grep fms

Please let us know if the commands helped.

Thank you !