Concepts and definitions

This section describes key concepts and defines terminology specific to this solution:

application

A logical group of AWS resources that you want to operate as a unit.

Adaptive Bit Rate (ABR)

A streaming method that adjusts the video quality based on network conditions to improve video streaming over HTTP networks.

HTTP Live Streaming (HLS)

A HTTP-based streaming protocol to deliver media over the internet and developed by Apple Inc.

QVBR

Quality-Defined Variable Bitrate is a video encoding technology that uses fewer bits in low-complexitiy periods of content, and more bits during high-completely periods (up to the maximum bitrate) delivering consistently high video quality.