# Architecture details
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This section describes the components and AWS services that make up this solution and the architecture details on how these components work together.

## AWS services in this solution
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| AWS service | Description | 
| --- | --- | 
|  [AWS Elemental MediaLive](https://aws.amazon.com/elemental-live/)  |  **Core.** Ingests an input feed and transcodes your content into one adaptive bitrate (ABR) HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) stream as output. | 
|  [Amazon S3](https://aws.amazon.com/s3)  |  **Core.** Provides storage to host the encoded segments. | 
|  [Amazon CloudFront](https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/)  |  **Core.** Delivers your live stream to viewers with low latency and high transfer speeds. | 
|  [Amazon CloudWatch](https://aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/)  |  **Supporting.** Monitors S3 requests made to the distribution bucket. | 
|  [AWS CloudFormation](https://aws.amazon.com/cloudformation/)  |  **Supporting.** This solution is distributed as a [CloudFormation template and stack](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/cfn-whatis-concepts.html), which deploy the AWS resources for the solution. | 
|  [AWS IAM](https://aws.amazon.com/iam/)  |  **Supporting.** Allows for fine-grained access permissions. | 
|  [AWS Systems Manager](https://aws.amazon.com/systems-manager/)  |  **Supporting.** Provides application-level resource monitoring and visualization of resource operations and cost data. | 
|  [AWS Elemental Link](https://aws.amazon.com/medialive/features/link/)  |  **Optional.** Device to connect a video source on-premises to MediaLive. |