hello, i bought a amazon cloud EC2 and setup a CentOS Instance. I installed flash media server on it. However, most of my users are complaining that it the streams lag for them. I thought amazon's cloud operated like a CDN? IT shouldn't lag should it?

What is the server load on your virtual server?

I/O operations are known to be quite slow on EC2.

EC2 does not operate like a CDN out of the gate. You'll need to use CloudFront to get that benefit. We also serve a lot of content directly out of S3 - that can be quite fast.

I would recommend you to try the cloudfront which would be one of the best options. You could also try for the virtual private cloud.

hello, i bought a amazon cloud EC2 and setup a CentOS Instance. I installed flash media server on it. However, most of my users are complaining that it the streams lag for them. I thought amazon's cloud operated like a CDN? IT shouldn't lag should it?


Hi there,

Have you collected any historical data on resource usage? What's the bottleneck so far? That would be a good start in understanding the problem to come up with a fix.

Regards
Joe / UNIXY

hello, i bought a amazon cloud EC2 and setup a CentOS Instance. I installed flash media server on it. However, most of my users are complaining that it the streams lag for them. I thought amazon's cloud operated like a CDN? IT shouldn't lag should it?
I suppose you will need to use CloudFront in lieu of EC2.

CF offers your edge servers at various locations - US/Europe/HongKong/Singapore/Japan.

Try starting a more powerful instance on EC2. 32-bit EC2 instances are known to be slow with IO.

I think that you should avid EC2. There are various reasons to do that and one of them is security and back-up. Read EC's TOS carefully.

I always assumed EC2 was more for development servers as opposed to fully live operational servers... Is that the case or..?

I always assumed EC2 was more for development servers as opposed to fully live operational servers... Is that the case or..?

It can be used just fine for full on production sites.

To the OP: Use EBS instead of the instance storage space to serve your media. It is faster than that and S3 storage.

Definitely recommend planning out your content delivery structure with Amazon Web Services in mind.

We tend to deliver dynamic content using Amazon EC2 instances deployed in appropriate zones (US-East, US-West, EU, etc.). This is dynamically generated content.

All static content such as PDF, JS, Images, Audio, Video etc we store at Amazon S3 and Use Cloudfront to distribute appropriately. It can increase speeds immensely.

There are some cases we dynamically generate content on a schedule publish programatically to Amazon S3 and develop appropriate Cloudfront distributions.

Amazons IO issues can be improved upon with proper planning around your content and goals.