What are the pros of Cloudfront/http?

Wowza Streaming Engine
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Hello Community

Yesterday I made my first operation with this setting:

  • a Wowza server on my own infrastructure (not EC2)

  • a “web” (i.e. http) Clouldfront distribution

I was streaming live with http-based protocols (hls and hds but no rtmp).

It was working fine, but to my surprise all clients connections were received by Wowza. I was expecting only one connection from Cloudfront, and that clients would fetch their data from CF.

Am I missing something? because if all clients connect to my Wowza, what’s the use of CF?

TIA

greg

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It can’t be setup properly then. Have you done the steps in the article?

By the way, how much outbound bandwidth do you have?

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With Cloudfront distribution clients stream from Cloudfront servers, not directly from Wowza.

Richard

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Greg,

The basic guide is here

Richard

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Greg, if you have configured HTTPOrigin application in the Manager, but also want to use it as a live origin to re-stream from an edge, then open the Application.xml and change /Client /StreamAccess from this:

<StreamReadAccess></StreamReadAccess>

To this, adding “*”

<StreamReadAccess>*</StreamReadAccess>

Re-start the application or Wowza, then you will also be able to use this application as liverepeater origin.

Richard

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I created a new HTTP Origin application in Wowza Manager, and it was empty. . You do need the * to re-stream from a LiveRepeater edge.

Richard

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So I was right thinking Wowza would have to output a limited number of streams?

I just created a “Live” application in the new GUI, then creates a “web” distribution on Amazon with my wowza server as origin.

And my bandwidth is 100Mbps, which should be sufficient for a quite a few 600kbps stream.

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Thanks for your answer.

So how should I configure Wowza?

(I’m using Wowza 4 for live http streaming)

TIA

greg

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So with the guide I think I managed to solve my problem: it’s only working with “Live HTTP Origin” and NOT with “Live Origin”…

Thanks

greg

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Oh nice trick, thanks :slight_smile:

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I just had a look to the Application.xml file of both applications (the “Live HTTP Origin” and the “Live Single Server or Origin”), both have this line:

*