Serverless Live Streaming with Cloudflare Stream
Sep 30, 2021Zaid Farooqui

Summary
Introduced Stream Live, an end-to-end scalable live-streaming platform. It supports RTMPS ingestion from mobile/desktop, automatically records broadcasts, and delivers them via an optimized player or HLS/DASH. Features include self-expiring tokenized links for access control (time-based, geo-fencing, IP restrictions), instant conversion of live videos to recordings (under 1 second), and global scaling by leveraging Cloudflare's network for ingest and delivery. Achieves low latency (as low as 15 seconds) and offers simple, pay-as-you-go pricing based on recorded and viewed minutes, with no hidden costs for ingest, encoding, egress, or storage. Supports multiple quality levels at no additional cost.
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