Hi,
We are using AWS EC2 ami (ami-dcc360ab) of OpenVPN Access Server. Atm free edition (2 concurrent connections), but we would like to extend. Our infrastructure is quite dynamic, and we rebuild our instances regularly, to make sure those are clean and come from our configuration management, which is version controlled.
In the light of below paragraph[1] from the licensing documentation, I have a 2 questions.
Will our license go invalidated if we rebuild our OpenVPN Access Server on another instance?
* assuming:
- The instance type will be the same
- OpenVPN version will stay the same (same ami)
- Only one instance of OpenVPN AS will be running at a time
Is there any other options of licensing specifically for AWS, eg. included in EC2 price?
[1]:
According to this
http://openvpn.net/index.php/license.html
"Activating a license key ties it to the specific hardware/software combination that it was activated on, and activated license keys are nontransferable. Substantial software and/or hardware changes may invalidate an activated license. In case of substantial software and/or hardware changes, caused by for example, but not limited to failure and subsequent repair or alterations of (virtualized) hardware/software, our software product will automatically attempt to contact our online licensing systems to renegotiate the licensing state. On any given license key, you are limited to three (3) automatic renegotiations within the license key lifetime. After these renegotiations are exhausted, the license key is considered invalid, and the activation state will be locked to the last valid system configuration it was activated on."
Thanks!
