Amazon Live Streaming and CloudFront
The weekend that passed marked the première for me to use Amazon Web Services as a streaming solution for a live broadcast. No, don’t get me wrong, I’ve done it using EC2 before – several times – but in this case I had to use CloudFormation and because of that it was a première. The setup is pretty straightforward. So here we go using Amazons pre-configured CloudFormation template. During about 10-15 minutes it automates a setup of CloudFront distribution as well as the EC2 instance needed to serve it. Since this current client was estimating about 1000+ concurrent viewers and…
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