Hi,
My target is 6-second latency to stream live content from a single Wowza instance to an end user using HLS. If I use CloudFront to distribute the live stream, instead of end-users connecting directly to Wowza, how much additional latency is added to the live stream? I understand it will vary based on distance between the origin and the edge location. I’m looking for a rough estimate of:
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How much time does it take the stream to become available in CloudFront versus directly from the Wowza origin.
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When the live stream is available from CloudFront and viewed by the end user, how much behind real time is the stream.
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In my setup, streams are dynamic - they start, run for a few minutes and then stop. They are only consumed by 1 viewer. Is CloudFront a poor fit for this application, should I be looking at the liverepeater origin/edge configuration instead? My main goal is to make streams available across AWS regional boundaries using origin/edge locations in each AWS region. (ie. Wowza origin in each region feeding CloudFront for edge distribution versus Wowza origin/edge/edgeorigin in each region pulling streams across regions only when necessary).
Thanks,
Dan