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CDK Construct to associate MediaTailor config with CloudFront distribution
CDK Construct to associate MediaTailor config with CloudFront distribution
This CDK Construct consists of two resources:
And then associates them by updating MediaTailor's settings:
https://{CloudFront hostname}/out/v1/{MediaPackage endpoint ID}https://{CloudFront hostname}import * as cdk from 'aws-cdk-lib';
import { Construct } from 'constructs';
import { MediaTailorWithCloudFront } from 'awscdk-mediatailor-cloudfront-construct';
export class ExampleStack extends cdk.Stack {
constructor(scope: Construct, id: string, props?: cdk.StackProps) {
super(scope, id, props);
const videoContentSourceUrl = 'https://xxxx.mediapackage.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/out/v1/yyyy/index.m3u8';
const adDecisionServerUrl = 'https://example-ad-server/vast';
const slateAdUrl = 'https://example-bucket.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/slate.mp4';
// Create MediaTailor with CloudFront
const res = new MediaTailorWithCloudFront(this, 'MediaTailorWithCloudFront', {
videoContentSourceUrl, // (required) The origin URL (assuming MediaPackage endpoint)
adDecisionServerUrl, // (optional) The ad decision server URL
slateAdUrl, // (optional) The URL of the slate video file
// configurationAliases, // (optional) The configuration aliases used by MediaTailor
// adDecisionFunction, // (optional) Instead of adDecisionServerUrl, you can specify a Lambda function that returns VAST/VMAP
// adDecisionFunctionApiPath, // (optional) The API path (including query strings) used by MediaTailor for invoking the Lambda function
// skipCloudFront, // (optional) Skip the CloudFront setup (default = false)
// adInsertionMode, // (optional) Whether players can use stitched or guided ad insertion (default = 'STITCHED_ONLY')
// prerollAdUrl, // (optional) The URL of the preroll ad
});
// You can access MediaTailor playback configuration attributes via `emt.config`
new cdk.CfnOutput(this, "SessionInitializationPrefix", {
value: res.emt.config.attrSessionInitializationEndpointPrefix,
exportName: cdk.Aws.STACK_NAME + "SessionInitializationPrefix",
description: "MediaTailor's session initialization prefix",
});
// You can access CloudFront distribution attributes via `cf.distribution`
new cdk.CfnOutput(this, "CloudFrontHostname", {
value: res.cf.distribution.distributionDomainName,
exportName: cdk.Aws.STACK_NAME + "HLSPlaybackPrefix",
description: "CloudFront distribution's host name",
});
}
}
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CDK Construct to associate MediaTailor config with CloudFront distribution
We found that awscdk-mediatailor-cloudfront-construct demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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