Flash video gets a cloud option through Amazon

Flash Media Server 4 lets customers send streaming video across the Net. By using it hosted on AWS‘ Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service, customers don’t have to worry so much about installation and configuration details.

The service costs a flat rate of US$5 to set up and US$5 per month to use, with variable costs according to the video-streaming capacity needed and data transferred. For example, an extra-large server instance that can manage up to 1,000 Real-Time Media Flow Protocol video connections costs US$1.30 per hour, along with 10 US cents per gigabyte of data coming in from a device such as a user’s Webcam and 15 US cents per gigabyte of data being streamed outward.

Adobe shared full pricing details on its Web site.