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Host Assets on Akamai NetStorage

Enterprise Integration

Akamai NetStorage is an enterprise integration. Please contact us to enable this feature for your account.

Akamai NetStorage is a managed, cloud-based storage service that provides geographically replicated storage for your content. Upload your assets to a NetStorage storage group and serve them globally via Akamai's edge network.

By using the Akamai NetStorage destination you can immediately send your assets to your own NetStorage storage group, making it quick and easy to distribute your assets via Akamai's CDN.

Setup​

Sign up to Akamai and create a storage group with an upload account if you have not already set one up. You will need your NetStorage HTTP domain name (hostname) and Content Provider (CP) code. Akamai credentials are required and must be added via the Shotstack dashboard.

The upload account must have the NetStorage HTTP CMS API access method enabled. Note that changes to upload accounts can take 60-120 minutes to propagate across the NetStorage network.

Adding credentials​

Login to the dashboard and navigate to the integrations page, find the Akamai NetStorage destination and click configure.

Enter your credentials as shown. You can add different credentials for each Shotstack environment; sandbox and v1 (production).

Integration​

Basic integration​

To send files to Akamai NetStorage add the following to the output parameter of a render request JSON payload, JSON template or the root level of an ingest request:

"destinations": [{
    "provider": "akamai-netstorage",
    "options": {
        "host": "example-nsu.akamaihd.net",
        "cpCode": "123456"
    }
}]

This will send the generated or ingested files to your NetStorage upload directory using the hostname example-nsu.akamaihd.net and CP code 123456. The filename will be the render id, source id or rendition id plus extension, i.e. edc47d30-a504-4f16-8439-24c863a7a782.mp4. Thumbnail and poster images will also be transferred.

Advanced integration​

You can also optionally set a remote directory path and custom file name:

"destinations": [{
    "provider": "akamai-netstorage",
    "options": {
        "host": "example-nsu.akamaihd.net",
        "cpCode": "123456",
        "path": "videos",
        "filename": "my-video"
    }
}]

This will send the rendered files to the videos directory in your NetStorage upload directory. If the rendered file is an mp4, the filename will be my-video.mp4.

When using a custom filename omit the file extension, i.e. .mp4 or .jpg. This will be added based on the rendered file type. If a poster or thumbnail are created these will have -poster.jpg and -thumbnail.jpg appended.

Opting out from the Shotstack destination​

By default all generated files are sent to the Shotstack destination. If you are using Akamai NetStorage you may wish to opt out from hosting your videos with Shotstack using:

"destinations": [{
    "provider": "akamai-netstorage",
    "options": {
        "host": "example-nsu.akamaihd.net",
        "cpCode": "123456"
    }
},{
    "provider": "shotstack",
    "exclude": true
}]

This will send the generated video to Akamai NetStorage but not to Shotstack.