Hello!
I’ve gotten back to you on your Asset Server + NAS issue in this thread.
As for the Portal Link going offline when you start an Infrastructure, that’s not quite what’s happening. Those green/red status labels just default to ‘Online’ when they get drawn in the UI for the first time (when you start the creation of an Infrastructure). But once the Infrastructure is started, the Portal Link starts trying to make connections. And usually the first couple fail so it flips over to offline. Give it a minute or two and it should swap over to online.
If the Portal Link status doesn’t flip over to green then there’s something wrong. In that case I’d go open up the Portal Link logs and check what you find against this page of possible solutions. And share it here if it’s not clear what’s going wrong.
As for using AWS Portal without Deadline licenses that’s 100% supported. Deadline Workers running on AWS don’t need a Deadline license.