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Re:Ask HN: Why is Amazon's NFL “live stream” 30 seconds behi... by mankash666 on Monday December 25, 2017 @09:09PM (#16006653)
Architecture. They're probably writing every X seconds to an S3 bucket, updating that bucket content to a cloudfront URL which then servers requests from end users. You can see how this pipeline could incur tens of seconds of latency over actual real time. As long as the latency is constant and in the tens of seconds, it qualifies as a live stream in my book

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