Step 1: Creating Switcher EC2 Instance

 

Let’s start creating an EC2 instance that will serve as our switcher. It will need to receive contribution SRT flows from MediaConnect and send out a program SRT flow back to MediaConnect.

Note

In order to minimize cross-AZ traffic, we will choose the same AZ for our signal path. In this workshop we will choose us-west-2a.

  1. In the search box, type EC2 and click on the EC2 icon to go to the Amazon EC2 service page.

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  2. Click on Launch instance.

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  3. Configure your EC2 Instance using the following settings.

    Under Name, type in switcher-instance.

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    Under Application and OS Images (Amazon Machine Image), Click on My AMIs and select Shared with me. Click the AMI with the name obs-switcher-2024-05-04.

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    Under Instance type, select c6a.4xlarge.

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    Under Key pair (login), select Proceed without a key pair (Not recommended) as we will be using Systems Manager to interact with the instance.

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    Under Network settings, click Edit to customize the default settings.

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    Under Subnet, select a subnet in us-west-2a.

    Under Firewall (security groups), select the switcher-security-group we created earlier.

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  4. Click on Launch instance to create the instance.

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  5. Click on the instance-id to go to be redirected to the soon to be running instance.

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    Make note of the Public IPv4 address and the Private IPv4 address.

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