About AWS deployments
This section describes how to deploy a Cloud Accelerator virtual appliance to Amazon Web Services (AWS) by using the Cloud Portal.
Manual deployment is the only supported deployment method for AWS GovCloud (US) and AWS in China regions.
When you provision a license to AWS, the portal automatically creates a licensed Cloud Accelerator virtual appliance hosted on a virtual machine in the AWS cloud service.
Additionally, a region-free Amazon Machine Image (AMI) for Cloud Accelerator is available on the AWS Marketplace. Cloud Accelerator has these benefits:
• You can instantiate Cloud Accelerator instances directly from AWS Marketplace.
• You update Cloud Accelerator instances directly from the SteelHead Management Console. You accomplish this task by downloading the image from the Riverbed Support site, and then use the SteelHead Management Console to select the downloaded image and install it.
• You can use a license from the Cloud Portal to activate the Cloud Accelerator. This feature is known as Bring Your Own License (BYOL).