PeerTube
Your videos. Your AWS account. Nobody else's bandwidth cap.
A production-ready PeerTube deployment in your own AWS account in about 20 minutes — the free, federated video platform, configured the way an AWS consultancy would do it for a growing video library.
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Educational Institutions
Lecture hosting without a per-view or bandwidth surprise.
Media Organizations
Video delivery you fully control, with no platform demonetization risk.
Open Source Projects
Conference talk archives that stay available for good.
Nonprofits
Video hosting on a nonprofit budget, without a bandwidth cap.
Independent Journalists
Publish video without depending on a platform's moderation policy.
Tech Conferences & User Groups
Host and archive talks federated across the wider PeerTube network.
If your video library is growing past what a bandwidth-capped platform can comfortably handle, the next section shows exactly where that cap starts to bite.
Bandwidth-Capped Tiers vs. One Flat Cost
| Vimeo Starter | Vimeo Standard | Vimeo Advanced | This Pattern | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price | $12–20/mo | $25/mo | $75/mo | $0.02/hr flat (~$14.60/mo) |
| Pricing model | Per organization | Per organization | Per organization | Per organization |
| Billing | Monthly/annual | Monthly/annual | Monthly/annual | Usage-based, cancel anytime |
| Data lives on | Vimeo's servers | Vimeo's servers | Vimeo's servers | Your own AWS account |
| Cost as you grow | 2TB/mo bandwidth cap | 2TB/mo bandwidth cap | 2TB/mo bandwidth cap, Enterprise required beyond it | Stays flat |
Vimeo pricing shown reflects its 2026 tier restructuring; exact Starter-tier pricing varies slightly by source and billing date ($12–20/mo). Vimeo was acquired by Bending Spoons in late 2025 followed by layoffs in January 2026, so pricing and policy may continue to change — confirm current rates before publishing.
Exceed Vimeo's 2TB/month bandwidth cap twice in a year — or hit 10TB once — and you're pushed into an Enterprise conversation, with reported overage bills of $6,000+/year. This pattern has no bandwidth cap; you pay standard AWS rates for what you actually stream.
Free, Federated Video Hosting
PeerTube is free and open source, and it federates instead of locking your video library into one platform's walled garden. Self-hosting it means no vendor-imposed bandwidth cap and no demonetization or delisting risk.
Free & open-source, no license fees
Federates instead of locking you in
Video data stays in your infrastructure
No demonetization or delisting risk
Production-Ready, Following AWS Best Practices
This CloudFormation template and custom AMI deploy a complete PeerTube environment — live in about 20 minutes.
Federation
Connect with other PeerTube instances.
P2P Streaming
Reduce bandwidth costs with WebTorrent.
Live Streaming
Support for live broadcasts.
Customizable
Themes and plugins available.
What's Easy to Get Wrong, Handled By Default
Setting up a video transcoding pipeline that doesn't bottleneck uploads
Dedicated EC2 instances for web and transcoding
Managing storage costs as the video library grows
S3 video storage — pay for what you use, no bandwidth cap
Configuring WebTorrent/P2P delivery correctly
CloudFront video delivery, configured and tuned for you
Setting up reliable live streaming infrastructure
Live streaming support, built into the deployment
FOSSonCloud is built by Ordinary Experts, an AWS Consulting Partner working in Infrastructure as Code since 2014. This isn't a repackaged black-box AMI — the CloudFormation template is open source, so you can see exactly what's being deployed.
Architecture
This pattern deploys a complete PeerTube infrastructure including:
- EC2 instances for web and transcoding
- RDS PostgreSQL database
- ElastiCache Redis
- S3 for video storage
- CloudFront for video delivery
What You'll Need
Everything required to go from this page to a running PeerTube deployment.
An AWS Account
With billing enabled and permission to launch resources in the region you plan to deploy to.
A Subscription to This Pattern on AWS Marketplace
Accepting the marketplace terms is what makes the CloudFormation template available to launch in your account.
A Registered Domain Name
Pointed at the infrastructure this pattern creates — needed for your instance's public URL and SSL certificate.
IAM Permissions to Launch CloudFormation Stacks
The stack creates EC2 instances, an RDS database, ElastiCache, an S3 bucket, and a CloudFront distribution on your behalf.
About 20 Minutes
For the stack to finish launching before you can start uploading video.
Up and Running in 4 Steps
Subscribe to the PeerTube pattern on AWS Marketplace
Launch the CloudFormation stack in your AWS account
Configure your instance branding
Start uploading and streaming videos — live in about 20 minutes
Self-Hosted Doesn't Mean Unsupported
Free Onboarding Session
A 1-hour call with a FOSSonCloud engineer, included with every deployment.
Ongoing Email Support
Direct line to support@fossoncloud.com whenever you need it.
Fully Open Source
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Production-ready PeerTube in your own AWS account, live in about 20 minutes.
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