Case Study: Berlin Philharmonic achieves uninterrupted global HD concert streaming with Amazon Web Services

Berlin Philharmonic - Customer Case Study

The Berlin Philharmonic—through its Digital Concert Hall—needed to deliver long, high‑definition concert videos to a global audience without interruptions. Traditional CDNs caused frequent cache misses and bandwidth bottlenecks for rare, large classical recordings, degrading the listening experience, so the orchestra engaged AWS partner tecRacer to find a reliable alternative.

They moved a growing 2+ TB video library to Amazon S3 and deployed mirrored Amazon EBS volumes attached to Amazon EC2 instances running Adobe Media Server in multiple AWS regions, with Route 53 latency‑based routing and URL signing for secure delivery. Implemented in under a month, the setup serves up to ~200 HD streams per instance, lets users be rerouted or pick regions to avoid congested nodes, and eliminated dependence on third‑party CDNs while improving performance and flexibility.

Berlin Philharmonic

Alexander McWilliam

Director of Online Development