Local ffmpeg output to S3 Bucket

You can:

  1. Mount the S3 bucket using S3FS FUSE and then you output directly to it.

    How to Mount S3 Bucket on CentOS/RHEL and Ubuntu using S3FS

  2. Segment the media for HTTP streaming and upload each segment and playlists using the S3 API and a script of your choice.

I'd go with 1 for a live stream.


It could be late to answer this question, but I think this may be useful for others.

You can use this method to write output file to your S3 server.

ffmpeg -re -i in.ts -f hls -method PUT http://example.com/live/out.m3u8

Read more in https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-all.html#hls-2