Here's an article outlining the steps required to get the FME Desktop floating license server up and running on an EC2 instance quickly.
https://knowledge.safe.com/articles/82230/create-fme-license-server.html
If you are really familiar with AWS and Linux, it's possible to have it up and running in less than 8 minutes.Total cost is ~$45 per year.
As requested: Using FME Desktop on AWS: https://knowledge.safe.com/articles/60408/fme-desktop-on-amazon-aws-ec2.html
@CatAtSafe - I'm trying to do this very thing...Install FlexLM on an EC2 Instance to allow licensing for an Autodesk software package.The EC2 side seems to be working well but the client machine can't seem to connect.Is there a good explanation available for both ends of the connection needed to implement this connection?
Hiya@jasoneroad!
Yes it will.We do this internally for our online training, where the Flex LM license manager is hosted on a micro or nano instance of AWS, that is set up with an elastic ip ( aka it doesn't change).Our EC2 machines are then use that instance as the licesne server.However, if you can't have a static IP, then your .lic will invalidate every time the ip changes and is not recommended.
Cheers,
Cat