Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides two over-the-top (OTT) live video streaming solutions to cost-effectively deliver media content to a global audience in the AWS Cloud. Both solutions build a highly available architecture that delivers a reliable real-time viewing experience. This page provides guidance to choose the live video streaming solution that best fits your business needs.
Which Live Streaming on AWS solution should I choose?
In addition to the two OTT live video streaming solutions, AWS offers Amazon Interactive Video Service (Amazon IVS) for creating interactive video experiences. Visit the Amazon IVS page to learn more.
Live Streaming on AWS with MediaStore
Live Streaming on AWS
Live Streaming on AWS with MediaStore
AWS Solutions Implementation overview
The diagram below presents the serverless architecture you can automatically deploy using the solution's implementation guide and accompanying AWS CloudFormation template.
Live Streaming on AWS with MediaStore Solutions Implementation architecture
The AWS CloudFormation template launches the AWS products and services necessary to ingest, transcode, and deliver live streaming video.
AWS Elemental MediaLive, ingests an input feed and transcodes your content into one adaptive bitrate (ABR) HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) stream as output.
AWS Elemental MediaStore provides a scalable highly available storage container to host the encoded segments.
An Amazon CloudFront distribution is configured to use the MediaStore custom endpoints as its origin. The CloudFront distribution delivers your live stream to viewers with low latency and high transfer speeds.
You can configure this solution to ingest Real-Time Transport Protocol (RTP), Real-Time Messaging Protocol (RTMP), HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) content, or live video from an AWS Elemental Link device.
The diagram below presents the serverless architecture you can automatically deploy using the solution's implementation guide and accompanying AWS CloudFormation template.
Live Streaming on AWS Solutions Implementation architecture
The solution’s AWS CloudFormation template launches the AWS products and services necessary to ingest, transcode, and deliver live streaming video.
AWS Elemental MediaLive, which ingests two input feeds and transcodes your content into two adaptive bitrate (ABR) HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) streams as output.
AWS Elemental MediaPackage ingests the MediaLive ABR output and packages the live stream into HLS, Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH), and Common Media Application Format (CMAF) formats that are delivered to three MediaPackage custom endpoints.
An Amazon CloudFront distribution is configured to use the MediaPackage custom endpoints as its origin and includes a CDN identifier custom HTTP header to authenticate requests. MediaPackage only fulfills playback requests that are authorized between MediaPackage and CloudFront using the CDN Identifier. This CDN Identifier is created as part of the CloudFormation deployment and securely stored in AWS Secrets Manager.
The CloudFront distribution delivers your live stream to viewers with low latency and high transfer speeds.
A demo HTML preview player is available to help you test the solution. The player is a static website hosted in an Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket. Amazon CloudFront is used to restrict access to the solution's website bucket contents.
