# How to Lower Your Latency in Streaming Cloud (For HLS & WebRTC)

**URL:** https://community.wowza.com/t/how-to-lower-your-latency-in-streaming-cloud-for-hls-webrtc/93744
**Category:** Video Tutorials
**Tags:** streaming-cloud
**Created:** [August 25, 2021, 7:52pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-to-lower-your-latency-in-streaming-cloud-for-hls-webrtc/93744 "2021-08-25T19:52:47Z")
**Posts on this page:** 1
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

### Author: ![Rose\_Power-Wowza\_Com](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.wowza.com/rose_power-wowza_com/32/431_2.png) [@Rose\_Power-Wowza\_Com](https://community.wowza.com/u/Rose_Power-Wowza_Com)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2021, 7:52pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-to-lower-your-latency-in-streaming-cloud-for-hls-webrtc/93744/1 "2021-08-25T19:52:47Z")

</div>

While general latency going from RTMP to HLS is 30-45 seconds, this can be tuned down to 9-12 seconds by checking a box and optimizing your encoder output. Additionally, you can add a WebRTC output with a 1-3 second latency. However, this WebRTC output will not scale to as many viewers as your HLS stream.

  

[![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/wowza1/original/2X/2/2818714f2cbba45475e628f4136d02beb2fb52a0.jpeg "Low Latency Best Practices For Wowza Streaming Cloud") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TSdh1dqzjg&t=2s)