Build highly available live video streaming content using AWS Media Services and Amazon CloudFront

Publication date: November 2016 (last update: November 2022)

Amazon Web Services (AWS) lets broadcasters and content owners to seamlessly scale infrastructure to broadcast live content to a global audience. The Live Streaming on AWS solution helps you build highly available live video streaming content using AWS Media Services and Amazon CloudFront that is highly resilient and secure to deliver real-time viewing experiences to your customers.

This solution provides the following features:

• Encodes and packages your content for adaptive bitrate streaming across multiple screens via HTTP live streaming (HLS), Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH), and Common Media Application Format (CMAF) by automatically configuring AWS Elemental MediaLive and AWS Elemental MediaPackage.

• Provides an elastic, highly available, global content delivery network for live video streaming using Amazon CloudFront.

With this solution, you can run it only during a live event and then after the program ends, delete the solution’s stack to ensure you only pay for the infrastructure that you use.

This implementation guide discusses architectural considerations and configuration steps for deploying Live Streaming on AWS in the AWS Cloud. It includes a link to an AWS CloudFormation template that launches and configures the AWS services required to deploy this solution using AWS best practices for security and availability.

The guide is intended for IT infrastructure architects, administrators, and DevOps professionals who have practical experience with video streaming and architecting in the AWS Cloud.