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Guidance for Live Streaming on AWS

Overview

This Guidance demonstrates how to overcome the challenge of delivering consistent, high-quality live video streams globally by building resilient streaming infrastructure that automatically handles redundancy and multiple delivery formats. The system ingests live video feeds and processes them through parallel streams to ensure uninterrupted delivery, while automatically packaging content into multiple streaming formats optimized for different devices and viewing conditions, and includes a built-in demo player that allows teams to test and validate streaming performance before going live with viewers. You can deliver live video content to global audiences with minimal latency and maximum reliability, ensuring viewers receive smooth streaming experiences regardless of their location or device.

Benefits

    Ingest and transcode live feeds with built-in redundancy into adaptive bitrate HLS, DASH, and CMAF formats. Reach viewers across all devices while AWS manages the underlying media infrastructure.

    Stream live events to worldwide audiences through CloudFront's content delivery network with low latency and high transfer speeds. Scale automatically to handle audience surges without capacity planning.

    Protect premium content using CDN authorization that validates requests between MediaPackage and CloudFront with secure identifiers. Control access to ensure only authorized viewers can watch your live broadcasts.

How it works

These technical details feature an architecture diagram to illustrate how to effectively use this solution. The architecture diagram shows the key components and their interactions, providing an overview of the architecture's structure and functionality step-by-step.

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