I’m trying to set up an EC2 auto-scaling group that scales up based on outgoing network traffic. For some reason, the user-data I included in my Launch Configuration comes back as a Base64 string instead of a zip file on all instances created in the scaling group. I’ve never had a problem loading the wowza config via user-data when creating EC2 instances directly.
Unless I’m just missing something obvious this looks to me like an EC2 Auto Scaling bug. Are you guys aware of this issue? If so, do you know of any workaround?
I really, really don’t want to bundle my own Wowza AMI to deal with this. I like the way things are currently set up. When using the user-data approach, upgrading my custom apps & modules or the wowza ami to its latest version is a very painless process. I want to keep it this way.
I actually purchased EC2 Gold support just to figure out this issue. I’m waiting for Amazon to get back to me, but I’m not too hopeful.
Thx fo your help.