Running the License Server in a Cloud

Operating in a public or virtual private cloud in an Amazon EC2 environment, you can run the license server on an AMI instance and then deploy instances of the FlexEnabled application as one or more license clients in the cloud, in your enterprise network, or in both, with all clients pointing to the license server in the cloud.

In a public cloud, you can run lmhostid directly on the AMI instance containing the license server to obtain the hostid needed to bind the license. For more information about these use cases and the required hostids, see Licensing in a Cloud-Computing Environment.