Setting up AWS MediaStore and CloudFront for HTTP ingest

The following are pre-requisites for this guide:

1. Have signed up for an Amazon Web Services (AWS) account here.
2. Know your external facing IPv4 address by clicking here

Setting up AWS for HTTP Streaming

Create CloudFormation Stack

1. Open the CloudFormation template by clicking here: ULL CloudFormation Template
2. Select the region closest to you from the title bar in the upper right corner of the CloudFormation screen, options are N. Virginia, Oregon, Seoul, Sydney, Tokyo, Frankfurt, Ireland, and Stockholm
3. From the “Create Stack” screen, select the “Next” button on the bottom right of the screen
4. From the “Specify stack details”, enter the following fields:
   • Stack Name – The default is “ULL”, you can name it something different, but it cannot be the same name as an existing stack
   • MediaStoreContainerName – The default is “MyContainer”, you can name is something different, but no spaces, just numbers/characters
   • EncoderIP – This is the encoder's public IP (pre-requisite #2 above)
     • If you want to allow traffic from anywhere, enter 0.0.0.0/0
   • EnableCloudFront – The default is “False”. Set this to true if you want to configure a CloudFront distribution to serve your content. This is recommended, but it adds about 15 minutes to the orchestration time for this template.
5. Leave all the other fields unmodified, and select the “Next” button at the bottom right of the screen
6. From the “Configure stack options” screen select the “Next” button at the bottom right of the screen
7. From the “Review Stackname” screen, check the Capabilities acknowledgment and select the “Create stack” button at the bottom right of the screen.
8. When the stack is complete, you should see a green “CREATE_COMPLETE” check box under the Stacks column. When deploying with CloudFront set to true, this should take 20 minutes. When deploying without CloudFront, it should take less than 3 minutes.

Take note of the MediaStore and CloudFront URLs for use when setting up EdgeCaster and viewer playback:

1. Navigate to AWS CloudFormation
2. Click on Stacks in the left sidebar
   
   
3. Click on the name of the stack created for this workflow
4. Click Outputs
   
   
5. The MediaStore URL will be listed next to MediaStoreContainerDataEndpoint.
   • This will be used to configure EdgeCaster
     
     
6. The CloudFront URL will be listed next to CloudFrontDistributionDomainName.
   • This will be used to configure the player
     
     

To set up EdgeCaster, follow these instructions