Richard
I’ve been following several threads for some time now (on writing/reading to/from Amazon S3 buckets). I have a project coming up in the near future that could benefit from this, I think.
I’ll have a Wowza Server (Amazon EC2 - likely Wowza 2.X) running twice a week for a couple hours with 6-10 live streams (also being recorded).
Once these live streams are completed, I would like the streams to then get moved so a designated Amazon S3 bucket.
I have another Wowza server (Amazon EC2; Wowza 2.X) that runs 24/7. I would like this server to be able to handle any VOD3 requests from viewers (from the recordings moved to S3 from the temporary Wowza server). It’s extremely low traffic – maybe 10-20 simultaneous views at any given time.
My question is not in the setup – my question is in performance. I’ve seen Wowza Support (yourself included) mention several times on various threads that there are some “performance issues” to keep in mind when writing/reading to/from a S3 bucket.
Can you tell me what, exactly, these “performance issues” are? Is there a performance hit on the server (CPU hit or too many processes in queue, for example), or would it be a performance hit on the end-viewer’s side (such as a delay in watching the recorded video due to it having to be ‘loaded’ from S3)?
I understand that MediaCache is the recommended method of streaming the recordings, although I’m not sure why (again – because I don’t know what “performance issues” are, exactly).
I also see that the MediaCache AddOn is something you have to request – and I’m using Amazon EC2 pre-built images (Wowza 2.x), so I’m not sure how to go about requesting this as I don’t really have a “License Key” (do I?).
David L Good