Streaming Dynamic Content using Amazon CloudFront

This lab demonstrates how to use Amazon CloudFront to deliver a dynamic, multiple bit-rate media stream to a connected device using Apple’s HLS (HTTP Live Streaming) protocol. The stream can also be played on any browser which supports the HLS protocol. In this lab, you also use Amazon Elastic Transcoder to convert a source video into multiple bit-rate files that will be delivered using CloudFront.

Level

Intermediate

Duration

Course Objectives

In this course, you will learn how to:

• Creating multiple bit-rate versions of a given source media file using Amazon Elastic Transcoder.

• Delivering the dynamic (multi bit-rate) stream created by Amazon Elastic Transcoder, using Amazon CloudFront.

Intended Audience

This course is intended for:

• Architects
• Developers

Prerequisites

We recommend that attendees of this course have the following prerequisites:

• Familiar with the basics of media encoding
• Knowledge of core AWS services

Course Outline

• Task 1: Amazon Elastic Transcoder Configuration
• Task 2: Testing Playback of the Dynamic (multi bit-rate) Stream