Solution Overview
The Secure Media Delivery solution provides the ability to protect your premium video content from unauthorized access when delivered through Amazon CloudFront. The solution offers an additional layer of security based on individual access tokens added to the delivery URL. Existing or new CloudFront configurations used for Live Streaming and Video on Demand (VOD) workloads can benefit from this solution, whereby streaming operations engineers can control access to video assets by issuing individual tokens for each authorized viewer, verified at the edge by CloudFront Functions.
Solution Benefits
Seamlessly integrated with upmovin to protect your premium content from authorized access.
With a wide range of devices and streaming formats, the solution is designed to provide the best possible support coverage. The URL-based token works universally with the clients you use today and the ones you may need to support tomorrow.
Presenting secure tokens in the widely-adopted JSON Web Token (JWT) format offers flexibility in construction. Combine multiple viewer attributes and geolocation details provided by CloudFront to restrict playback to only authorized clients. Viewer attributes are not exposed in the token or URL path, ensuring the privacy of your end users.
Quickly identify playback sessions with irregular traffic patterns suggesting the unauthorized distribution of your content. Block playback sessions by reporting corresponding session identifiers, or leverage the automatic workflow offered by the solution to detect and block suspicious sessions.
The solution seamlessly scales to the highest traffic events via CloudFront Functions. You can depend on the automated workflows implemented by the solution to handle regular key rotation, and process traffic patterns to detect and block sessions with suspicious traffic patterns.
Solution Architecture
