how to link a video from amazon s3 account into my website

Question

Hello,

I have an amazon s3 account. As i am expecting a large amount of traffic to my site i want to put the videos to be placed in my s3 account and stream it up to my website. How can i do that?

Thanks Prady

Answer 1

The simplest way is to upload it using the AWS Management Console for S3, use that to set its permissions to be publicly accessible, and then just access the usual S3 URL for it:

http://bucket-name.s3.amazonaws.com/key-name

Depending on exactly how much traffic you're getting, you can look into using Amazon's CloudFront distribution network. That will speed things up for your users, especially if they span the globe.

Answer 2

Check out our blog post on how to do Amazon CloudFront streaming http://blog.cloudberrylab.com/2009/12/how-to-configure-cloudfront-streaming.html

Thanks Andy