Live Streaming "The Raid" documentary premiere in LA

So, MoovAtom went out to LA and streamed the world premiere of the new World of Warcraft documentary from Blue Loon Films' "The Raid". At peak, we had 1,200 simultaneous viewers watching a ~500kbps stream on six continents and over 30 countries. This level of traffic continued for solid 2 hours and the streaming servers handled it extremely well. The setup included a single xlarge Wowza EC2 instance in the US West region as the ingest point, running WireCast on a Macbook Pro i7 pushing the stream. The live stream actually stayed up for around 7 hours solid without a hiccup on any point of the chain. This says quite a bit about what type of bandwidth can be pushed on a single EC2 instance: Roughly 585 Mbps. We had our servers ready in the US East region, but we didn't even need them. Those 1200 people put the single c1.xlarge instance at an average 5% load with spikes up to 6%.

Here is a teaser:

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