AWS Media Blog

To help video providers across the world elevate the viewing experience for their audiences, Amazon Web Services will demonstrate advances in content creation, media supply chains, and content delivery during NAB Show 2019 (April 8-11, Booth SU2202, Las Vegas Convention Center). AWS will feature a full range of cloud and on-premises video solutions to ingest, […]

Guest post by Videon The content and opinions in this post are those of the third-party author and AWS is not responsible for the content or accuracy of this post. Low latency live video has typically been synonymous with traditional broadcasting. Being able to achieve 4-8 seconds of system latency has been hard to match with […]

Introduction AWS re:Invent is the largest event of the year for Amazon Web Services and the keynote addresses are the centerpieces of the week-long event. Live streams from re:Invent command a large viewership from around the world and are the highlight of the year for the AWS Event Technology Team. In 2018, AWS Elemental introduced […]

This article originally appeared in FEED Magazine, Issue 06. OTT video is becoming an increasingly viable mode of content delivery, allowing niche players from regional broadcasters to businesses to deliver content in a more targeted way. Singapore-based OTT service Spuul serves Indian content to viewers both in India and abroad across a range of platforms. […]

In a previous blog, we demonstrated how to programmatically access default logs and metrics provided by AWS Elemental MediaTailor. In this post, we will walk through creating our own metric using the MediaTailor log groups that have been made available in Amazon CloudWatch. At a glance, this is what we will do: Create an IAM […]

This article originally appeared in FEED Magazine, Issue 10. What used to be a relatively simple proposition for broadcasters – delivering a single analogue or digital signal to one type of device – has become a highly complex series of technological tasks. Broadcasters, pay TV operators and OTT services must deliver video to every type […]

Single-region reference architecture deployment walkthrough: The Fundamentals In a recent blog post, Kiran Patel described the resiliency challenges generated by high-profile live streaming events, and how AWS Elemental Media Services are architected to overcome those obstacles through distributed and redundant deployments. In this article and the next two chapters, we’ll dive into the details of […]

This article originally appeared in FEED Magazine, Issue 05. A Norwegian start-up is taking advantage of a VOD revolution fueled by AWS Elemental’s suite of cloud-based media tools. Crystallize is Bârd Farstad’s second start-up. Previously, the CEO and his brother, Aleksander, founded eZ Systems, which provided content management services for big subscription brands like Elle, […]

Video streaming is providing content creators direct data on consumer behavior like never before. However, without the proper pipeline from viewer to database, deriving insights about customer preferences and engagement can take days or weeks. In a session at the Strata Data Conference in San Jose in May 2018, Adam Ahringer, manager of software data […]

Introduction File-based video processing workflows on AWS can be built using AWS Elemental MediaConvert to transcode source media into output formats. Using MediaConvert, video providers with any size content library can easily and reliably transcode on-demand content for multiscreen delivery. Once you start using MediaConvert to transcode videos, the next step is usually to build an […]