Wowza Media Server Pro Unlimited is a high-performance, extensible and a fully interactive, Flash media server for live and on-demand flv streaming, chat and recording.
Wowza Media Systems has teamed with Amazon Web Services to make billing quick, easy, and secure for the combination of Wowza Media Server Pro, machine time with various EC2 instances and bandwidth.
Pricing of Wowza Pro Unlimited for Amazon EC2 is:
- Instances
- $0.14 per Small Instance-hour consumed (or part of an hour consumed)
- $0.45 per Large Instance-hour consumed (or part of an hour consumed)
- $0.88 per Extra-Large instance-hour consumed (or part of an hour consumed)
- Data Transfer
- $0.12 per GB of data transfer in
- $0.20 per GB of data transfer out
- Monthly Charge
- $5.00 recurring monthly charge
It is still in beta so improvements might be expected related to
- performance
- load-balancing
- using Amazon S3 for hosting videos
- management
Recommended books on Flash Video Streaming:
- Hands-On Guide to Flash Video: Web Video and Flash Media Server
- Flash Video for Professionals: Expert Techniques for Integrating Video on the Web
- Networking IP Video: Video on your IP Network - Streaming, Surveillance, Conferencing, Telepresence, and Video Telephony - and How to Deploy them all (Cisco Technology Series)
- Hands-On Guide to Video Blogging and Podcasting: Emerging Media Tools for Business Communication
2 comments:
The Wowza ec2 instance is great! Very easy to configure for running multiple servers. Very scalable if you need to do a big live streaming event and you need to double or triple your capacity overnight.
You may want to check out http://www.streamincloud.com - they will encode all the videos in a bucket to FLV for free. It's a nice little free service.
FYI: a new Wowza Pro for EC2 User's Guide was recently posted on the Wowza website-- now with instructions for using ElasticFox in your browser to aid with AMI administration tasks.
Also new: Wowza 2 Advanced AMIs are now available which support delivering your H.264/AAC streams (live or VOD) from EC2 to your iPhone & to Silverlight.
John [at] WowzaMedia {dotcom}
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