Creating an origin endpoint

This guides shows how to create an origin endpoint (endpoint) on a channel to define how MediaPackage prepares content for delivery. Content can't be served from a channel until it has an endpoint. If you're using input redundancy, each endpoint receives content from one ingest URL at a time. If MediaPackage performs a failover on the inputs for one ingest input URL, the endpoints automatically start receiving content from the other ingest URL. For more information about input redundancy and failover, see Live input redundancy AWS Elemental MediaPackage processing flow.

You can use the MediaPackage console, MediaPackage API, or AWS CLI to create an origin endpoint. When you're creating an origin endpoint, don't put sensitive identifying information like customer account numbers into free-form fields such as the name or description field. MediaPackage doesn’t require that you supply any customer data. This includes when you work with MediaPackage using the MediaPackage console, MediaPackage API, AWS CLI, or AWS SDKs. Any data that you enter into MediaPackage might get picked up for inclusion in diagnostic logs or Amazon CloudWatch Events.

To create an endpoint

1. Access the channel that the endpoint will be associated with, as described in Viewing channel details.

2. Choose Create endpoint from the Origin endpoints list.

3. Complete the fields as described in the following topics:

   • Endpoint settings fields

   • Segment settings fields

   • Encryption fields

   • Endpoint policy fields

   • Manifest fields

4. Choose Create.

   When you're creating an endpoint, you will receive an error if you exceed the quotas on the account. An error similar to Too many requests, please try again. Resource limit exceeded means that either you've exceeded the API request quotas, or you've already reached the maximum number of endpoints permitted on this channel.