Announcing Live Streaming for Amazon CloudFront

I've been using Wowza-based EC2 instances for periods of high traffic.

It is $5/month, plus the other Amazon charges.

http://www.wowzamedia.com/ec2.php

Is this more flexible than using something like justin.tv ? How is this different?

justin.tv has ads.

Also, you can create interactive apps with the Flash client and server. For instance, 2-way video chat.

Why just Flash though? I thought Flash was on its way out. Other than that, interesting move. Looks like there is increased interest these days toward live streaming.(Youtube live was announced recently as well)

Flash Media Server means Adobe software running on the server, so users would either need to arrange the license themselves and pay for a server (e.g. using EC2) or have a specific service offered by Amazon (what they've just announced).

Anyone who wants to serve content without flash doesn't need Flash Media Server, so they can do it without needing this service.

It's Flash Media Server, which supports more than just streaming to Flash. Soon, it'll do HTTP Live Streaming through HTML5.

http://blogs.adobe.com/ktowes/2011/04/sneak-peak-future-adob...