How To Stream Video From Amazon S3
August 31, 2009 by Paul · 3 Comments
Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) is a great service for anyone doing business on the web that needs a lot of storage or bandwidth.
The problem with most web hosts is that they charge you every month for the maximum bandwidth you might need, whether you actually do need it or not.
Amazon S3, however, only charges you for what you use. That makes it ideal for streaming video (it’s not actually streaming, it’s progressive download, but we won’t get into that here).
You link to the video html page, the video itself from within a web page on your site, or link to it from within your web site video player. The actual video streams from Amazon S3 through your web site, but it doesn’t add to your web host bandwidth usage.
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