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title: Supported use cases include
description: "  | **Input type** | **Use case** | **Upstream system and supported protocol** | **Live stream supported?** | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | CDI | Push an uncompressed stream in your VPC to a fixed…"
url: "https://www.overcasthq.com/docs/supported-use-cases-include/"
updated: "2023-09-05"
category: Ingest
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# Supported use cases include

 

| **Input type** | **Use case** | **Upstream system and supported protocol** | **Live stream supported?** |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| CDI | Push an uncompressed stream in your VPC to a fixed endpoint  | Amazon VPC within a private cloud | Yes |
| HLS | Pull an HLS stream from an external endpoint using the HTTP protocol, with or without a secure connection. | HTTP server or HTTPS server | Yes |
| HLS | Pull an HLS stream from an Amazon S3 bucket, using a secure connection. | Amazon S3 over a custom protocol | Yes |
| Link | Push a transport stream (TS) from an AWS Elemental Link device. | AWS Elemental Link over an internal connection | Yes |
| RTMP Pull | Pull a stream from an external endpoint using the RTMP protocol. | RTMP server over RTMP Pull | Yes |
| RTMP Push | Push a stream to a fixed endpoint using the RTMP protocol. | RTMP server over RTMP Push | Yes |
| RTMP Push | Push a stream in your VPC to a fixed endpoint using the RTMP protocol. | Amazon VPC over RTMP within a private cloud | Yes |
| RTP | Push a transport stream (TS) to a fixed endpointusing the RTP protocol. | RTP server over RTP Push | Yes |
| RTP | Push a transport stream (TS) in your VPC to a fixed endpoint on MediaLive, using the RTP protocol. | Amazon VPC over RTP within a private cloud | Yes |

 

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