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Supported use cases include

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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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