At the time of writing this guide, Autodesk does not sell floating licenses directly from their website, neither by phone. You will need to order a Network license in order to use this setup. Once your instance is up and running, SSH into it, download the Autodesk FlexLM package and install it: wget It's essential that you setup at least one of those methods, otherwise you won't be able to remotely access the machine afterwards. You can also add your public SSH key to the instance at that moment, which later allows you to access the system without having to type a password. This key will allow you to manage the instance remotely. Also, if you are located in California, make sure you choose the correct region, which would be us-west-1 (North California).Īn important step is to download the *.pem file, which will be displayed right after you launch the instance. That should be enough to run the OS and the license software.Īutodesk only offers an RPM package as an installer, so make sure you choose RedHat Linux for the OS during the setup. Give your instance something like 5GB of storage. The license server is not computationally intensive, so when you create the EC2 instance, choose the t2.nano type, which is the smallest/cheapest instance, comes with 1 vCPU and 512MB RAM. In this guide, we won't go into the process of creating an Elastic Compute instance on Amazon, that is documented in the EC2 Get Started page. Running Autodesk License Server on AWS EC2 Instance 1.
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