Origin Shielding & Resilience Checklist

A one-page checklist to work through before a streaming launch or live event: classify the origin (static vs just-in-time packaging, and size it for requests not just bytes), enable and place the origin shield (one consolidation point, nearest the origin), set TTLs so the shield holds, design origin failover (origin group, failover status codes, GET/HEAD/OPTIONS, tightened timeouts for live), plan multi-region/multi-CDN origin sharing, and the one sanity check that keeps a single server from end