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Case Study: Kiswe sets world record for the largest live streaming ticketed concert with AWS

Kiswe delivers ticketed digital experiences for live concerts and sporting events to global audiences. As a startup, Kiswe wanted to provide content rights owners with a turnkey event solution that delivers interactive live streamed experiences to their audiences, built with reliability, security, low latency, and elasticity to scale from small private events to the largest digital events in the world.

Kiswe built a solution using Amazon CloudFront for content delivery, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) for compute capacity, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) for object storage, and Elastic Load Balancing to distribute incoming application traffic. Read the full case study to learn how they were able to successfully scale up to 756,000 viewers—setting a world record for the largest live streaming ticketed concert.

AWS offers the most comprehensive cloud-based solutions and services to help direct-to-consumer (D2C) & streaming companies such as Kiswe reliably deliver, monetize, and support live and on-demand media over the internet, and bring unparalleled experiences to screens everywhere. Explore https://aws.amazon.com/media/direct-to-consumer-d2c-streaming/ to learn more.