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How to create Streaming Distribution on Amazon S3 bucket


A distribution is a link between an Amazon S3 Bucket (the origin server) and a domain name (assign by Amazon CloudFront ). You use this new domain name in place of standard Amazon S3 references.You serve the client to end users through a basic distribution, which serves HTTP content. You can serve your streaming media content to the client through a special kind of distribution known as a STREAMING DISTRIBUTION .
Streaming distributions are designed specifically to serve streaming media files over RTMP.


Create Streaming Distribution:

Once you've stored your objects in your origin server (Amazon S3 Bucket), inorder to make Amazon CloudFront recognize your objects , you need to create a distribution, which is a link between an Amazon S3 bucket (the origin server) and a domain name (which Amazon CloudFront automatically assigns). To stream content, you need to deliver two types of files to your end users: your streaming media files and the client that will play them.
 

How does it work?

  • Put your client in the client bucket, and make the client (not the bucket) publicly readable. And Create a public distribution for your client.
  • Put your streaming content in the streaming bucket, and make the content (not the bucket) publicly readable and create a streaming distribution for your media containing bucket.
  • Create a crossdomain.xml file and place it in the root of the bucket holding the streaming content (not the bucket holding the client, if it's a different bucket). Make the file publicly readable. CloudFront supplies a default file that allows all domains to access the media files in your streaming distribution. If you implement a more restrictive crossdomain.xml file, CloudFront ignores default file.
  • Create URLs for your streaming content files.
    • Note : The client bucket and streaming bucket can be the same bucket, or different ones.  

Follow the given steps to Create Streaming Distribution:

  1. Run Bucket Explorer.
  2. Choose "Distribution" icon from Bucket table toolbar or you can do the same by selecting "Manage Distribution" option from right click menu option of any bucket.
  3. It displays a "List distribution" window having list of already created distributions.
  4. To create new distribution choose "New" icon from toolbar of List distribution window.
  5. It opens new window to create distribution, now you need to set configuration for streaming distribution.
      To set configuration you need to give following information:
    • Select bucket name from drop down list.
    • Selete distribution type "STREAMING".
    • To create disabled distribution, deselect check box "Enable Distribution", by default it is enabled.
    • If you want to give comments for distribution then write comment in comment text field.
    • Add CNAME(s) to list box by clicking "+" button and you can remove CNAME(s) by clicking "-" button. You can give maximum up to 10 CNAME(s).
  6. After setting the entire values for Streaming Distribution click on "Create" button, It will create Streaming distribution for your specified bucket.
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