Use cloud-providers / CDNs specialized services

[davidfischer-ch]

To make such kind of services available through the platform and to lower costs.

Oveview

• [ ] Investigate on the possibilities offered by CloudFront and Akamai.
• [ ] Compare and choose the best solution with respect to their features and API.
• [ ] Define the best way to integrate the CDN services.
• [ ] Update the user interface and the API to control the workflow.
• [ ] Update the publication worker/point to use the CDN services.
• [ ] Update the documentation.

  Technical Tasks

• [ ] TODO
• Publisher : Add new job type that store media into AWS S3 and generate a "code embed" for clients to access a web media player linked to S3.

  References

Python AWS : http://aws.amazon.com/articles/3998?_encoding=UTF8&jiveRedirect=1 Boto tutorial Python S3 : http://boto.cloudhackers.com/en/latest/s3_tut.html