Manage streaming endpoints with the Azure portal

This article shows how to use the Azure portal to manage streaming endpoints.


Make sure to review the overview article.

For information about how to scale the streaming endpoint, see this article.

Start managing streaming endpoints

To start managing streaming endpoints for your account, do the following.

  1. In the Azure portal, select your Azure Media Services account.

  2. In the Settings blade, select Streaming endpoints.

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You are only billed when your Streaming Endpoint is in running state.

Add/delete a streaming endpoint


The default streaming endpoint cannot be deleted.

To add/delete streaming endpoint using the Azure portal, do the following:

  1. To add a streaming endpoint, click the + Endpoint at the top of the page.

    You might want multiple Streaming Endpoints if you plan to have different CDNs or a CDN and direct access.

  2. To delete a streaming endpoint, press Delete button.

  3. Click the Start button to start the streaming endpoint.

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Configuring the Streaming Endpoint

Streaming Endpoint enables you to configure the following properties:

  • Access control
  • Cache control
  • Cross site access policies

For detailed information about these properties, see StreamingEndpoint.


When CDN is enabled, you cannot access IP access. IP access is only applicable when you don’t have CDN.

You can configure streaming endpoint by doing the following:

  1. Select the streaming endpoint you want to configure.
  2. Click Settings.

A brief description of the fields follows.

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  1. Maximum cache policy: used to configure cache lifetime for assets served through this streaming endpoint. If no value is set, the default is used. The default values can also be defined directly in Azure storage. If Azure CDN is enabled for the streaming endpoint, you should not set the cache policy value to less than 600 seconds.
  2. Allowed IP addresses: used to specify IP addresses that would be allowed to connect to the published streaming endpoint. If no IP addresses specified, any IP address would be able to connect. IP addresses can be specified as either a single IP address (for example, ''), an IP range using an IP address and a CIDR subnet mask (for example, ''), or an IP range using IP address and a dotted decimal subnet mask (for example, '').
  3. Configuration for Akamai signature header authentication: used to specify how signature header authentication request from Akamai servers is configured. Expiration is in UTC.

Scale your Premium streaming endpoint

For more information, see this article.

Enable Azure CDN integration

When you create a new account, default Streaming Endpoint Azure CDN integration is enabled by default.

If you later want to disable/enable the CDN, your streaming endpoint must be in the stopped state. It could take up to two hours for the Azure CDN integration to get enabled and for the changes to be active across all the CDN POPs. However, your can start your streaming endpoint and stream without interruptions from the streaming endpoint and once the integration is complete, the stream is delivered from the CDN. During the provisioning period your streaming endpoint will be in starting state and you might observe degraded performance.

CDN integration is enabled in all the Azure data centers except China and Federal Government regions.

Once it is enabled, the Access Control, **Custom hostname, and Akamai Signature authentication configuration gets disabled.


Azure Media Services integration with Azure CDN is implemented on Azure CDN from Verizon for standard streaming endpoints. Premium streaming endpoints can be configured using all Azure CDN pricing tiers and providers. For more information about Azure CDN features, see the CDN overview.

Additional considerations

  • When CDN is enabled for a streaming endpoint, clients cannot request content directly from the origin. If you need the ability to test your content with or without CDN, you can create another streaming endpoint that isn't CDN enabled.
  • For new streaming endpoints, you can enable CDN simply by creating a new endpoint; for existing streaming endpoints, you need to first stop the endpoint and then enable/disable the CDN.
  • Standard streaming endpoint can only be configured using Verizon Standard CDN provider using Azure classic portal. However, you can enable other Azure CDN providers using REST APIs.

Configure CDN profile

You can configure the CDN profile by selecting the Manage CDN button from the top.

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