# Wowza Cloud Formation based setup

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/wowza-cloud-formation-based-setup/41834>\
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Created:** [February 19, 2014, 7:45pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/wowza-cloud-formation-based-setup/41834 "2014-02-19T19:45:51Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Nosherwan\_Minwalla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Nosherwan\_Minwalla](https://community.wowza.com/u/Nosherwan_Minwalla)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2014, 7:45pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/wowza-cloud-formation-based-setup/41834/1 "2014-02-19T19:45:51Z")

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Hi all.

I used the instructions at [http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/DeveloperGuide/live-streaming-wowza.html](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/DeveloperGuide/live-streaming-wowza.html) (also shown in Chris K’s Amazon talk) to set up a stack including EC2, Wowza and Cloudfront.

My question is – where is the multi-bitrate encoding for all the quality levels for HLS/HDS/SS taking place? I logged into that server instance and could only see \<5% CPU utilization. So i’m probably looking in the wrong place.

Thanks in advance.

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**Author:** ![Daren\_Johnson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee59a6/32.png) [@Daren\_Johnson](https://community.wowza.com/u/Daren_Johnson)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2014, 11:01pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/wowza-cloud-formation-based-setup/41834/2 "2014-02-19T23:01:15Z")

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Hi,

Multi-bitrate encoding (transcoding) would take place on the Wowza server, if enabled.

You would need the [Wowza Tranacoder AddOn](https://www.wowza.com/docs/wowza-transcoder) for this.

Daren