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?
Supports URL_PULL, RTMP_PUSH, RTMP_PULL, RTP_PUSH, and MediaConnect inputs with redundancy
Supports URL_PULL, RTMP_PUSH, RTP_PUSH, and Elemental Link device with no redundancy
Outputs
Multiple outputs including CMAF, HLS, and DASH for playback support on different players
HLS only
Support for content protection
DRM
N/A
DVR-like features (live rewind, restart, etc.)
Build live-to-VOD workflows
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
This solution deploys AWS Elemental MediaLive, which 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 low-latency storage container to host the HLS segments from the MediaLive outputs.
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.
This solution also includes an Amazon CloudWatch dashboard that monitors the ingress and egress requests to AWS Elemental MediaStore, giving an overview of the health and performance of the live streaming workflow.
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.
