# Pause & Resume a wowza live stream?

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/pause-resume-a-wowza-live-stream/53823>\
**Category:** Wowza Video (Formerly Streaming Cloud)\
**Created:** [August 21, 2019, 4:30pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/pause-resume-a-wowza-live-stream/53823 "2019-08-21T16:30:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kushal\_Thakur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dc4da7/32.png) [@Kushal\_Thakur](https://community.wowza.com/u/Kushal_Thakur)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2019, 4:30pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/pause-resume-a-wowza-live-stream/53823/1 "2019-08-21T16:30:09Z")

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Can we Pause & Resume a live stream in Wowza Streaming Cloud? Also if yes how i am gonna get the state of the stream as ‘Paused’ or ‘Resumed’?

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**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 21, 2019, 5:39pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/pause-resume-a-wowza-live-stream/53823/2 "2019-08-21T17:39:47Z")

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You can not pause the live stream or get a state that says "paused’ in Cloud. But, your option instead is to Stop the stream and get the status that it is stopped through an API call. Same goes for starting it back up.

Here are the sample API calls to do this: (Look under “Live Streams”)

[https://sandbox.cloud.wowza.com/api/current/docs/#tag/live\_streams](https://sandbox.cloud.wowza.com/api/current/docs/#tag/live_streams)

You **can pause live streams** through the DVR function in Wowza Streaming Engine if you are interested in a Plan B.