In the news: Hotstar sets new global record for live viewership

Indian streaming giant Hotstar broke the global record for simultaneous streaming viewers this past weekend with 18.6 million users watching the finals of the Indian Premier League cricket tournament. Read TechCrunch’s coverage here.

To learn more about AWS services used for Hotstar’s streaming architecture, check out:

• Saving Millions : Leveraging EC2 Spots at Scale by Gaurav Kamboj, Cloud Architect at Hotstar and AWS Community Hero
• Scaling for Tsunami Traffic by Kaushik Chandrashekar, Dev at Hotstar