Load Balancing WSE in AWS for VOD-HLS

Rich_Sokol
Mon, 14 Feb 2022 18:40:06 +0000
Wowza Streaming Engine

We are looking to scale our WSE VOD deployments in Amazon. Currently we are using M5.XL instance type running CentOS. We are not leveraging any external sources for Media Cache, like ElasticCache or the like. We are not YET using S3 to access to access our VOD libraries (this is on our to-do list, but are concerned about speed with S3?) we currently use EBS volumes. Our common practice for scaling out is to front ending a pool of multiple web servers with an ELB/ALB. We would like to incorporate an additional WSE server into each of our implementations (currently front-ended by an ELB), and perhaps enhance the Media Cache configuration for additional performance. We use a custom module that leverages secure tokens and a REST layer to ensure all streams are protected. We are trying to determine our best first step in scaling our deployments. Was looking for some suggestions as we continue to study documentation. Thanks.

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