Prerequisites

• Access to AWS (we are using AWS EC2 to spin up Windows Server 2022, if you already have a server, you can skip to Installation of HiveMQ. Please note the minimal Hardware requirements. )

• Remote Desktop Client (E.g. Microsoft Remote Desktop App for Mac)

Spinning up the Windows Server

• Log in to AWS and go to EC2 console

• Click on “Launch Instance”

• Enter a name (e.g. HiveMQ Windows Server) and select the Windows Image
  

  

• Select the Minimum configuration required for HiveMQ installation https://docs.hivemq.com/hivemq/latest/user-guide/system-requirements.html , We selected t2.xlarge with 4 CPU and 16 GB RAM, you can select any instance that matches your performance and pricing needs

  • At least 4 GB of RAM

  • 4 or more CPUs

  • 100 GB or more free disk space.

    

• Create a KeyPair and download it, you will need it later to login to the environment

  

• Allow RDP to remote desktop into the server. Please replace Anywhere with a custom IP for increased security as per your requirements.

  

• Next, select Storage, we are taking the minimum value of 100GB

  

• Click on “Launch Instance”

Connecting to the EC2 instance

• Go to EC2>Instances and find your instance

  

• Select the Instance and click on Connect

  

• Download the remote desktop file

  

• Click on “Get password”

  

• Upload the private key from the last steps and note the password somewhere, this is the login password for Windows

• Double Click the Remote desktop file and connect using the password

  

• Windows should be up and running

  

Next steps

Setup and test HiveMQ Broker Install HiveMQ on Windows Server 2022