Multicast Video on AWS

Before you begin, please read the following AWS references:

  1. Getting Started with Transit Gateways: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/tgw/tgw-getting-started.html#tgw-prerequisites

  2. Multicast on transit Gateway and concepts: Multicast in Amazon VPC Transit Gateways - Amazon VPC

  3. Working with Multicast: What is Amazon VPC Transit Gateways? - Amazon VPC

This guide will include the following scenarios:

  1. Sender + Receiver in the same VPC

  2. Sender + Receiver in Different VPC and in the same region

  • Confirm that you have created 2 Instances (Sender + Receiver)

Multicast creation in AWS will include the following in 4 main steps:

  1. Create Transit Gateway

  2. Attach the VPC to the Transit Gateway

  3. Associate Route Table

  4. CreateTransitMulticastGateway

Create Transit Gateway

 

 

Create Transit Gateway Attachment

 

 

 

Create Transit Gateway Route Table

Route Table Association

Create Transit Multicast Gateway

Gateway Multicast Domain

Associate VPC Attachments and Subnets with a Transit Gateway Multicast Domain

 

 

 

Register Sources with a Multicast Group

 

 

 

 

Update Security

 

 

Create Transit Gateway