Category: Media Services

Architecting a highly resilient solution for streaming premium live sports events, concerts, or news is critical to delight viewers with a high quality of experience (QoE). Deploying your video delivery workflow in two different Amazon Web Services (AWS) Regions is one way to provide extra redundancy. Region failover can mitigate impacts to workflows and even […]

AWS re:Invent, the biggest Amazon Web Services (AWS) event of the year, is almost here! Attendees will hear from AWS leaders about the latest cloud and generative artificial intelligence (AI) innovations during keynotes throughout the event. They’ll also have the opportunity to dive deep with AWS subject matter experts, customers, and partners in breakout sessions […]

In less than three years, French startup Animaj made a name for itself in media production for kids. The company, founded in 2022, specializes in transforming intellectual property (IP) into bite-sized programming for 2-9 year-olds around the world. Animaj taps 3D animation vendors to deliver content for Pocoyo, Kidibli, Hey Kids, and Rabbids Invasion. It […]

Video platforms are increasingly using advertising for monetization, both in free-to-air and subscription-based services. The latter often now offer ad-supported pricing models, allowing users to access content at a discounted subscription price in exchange for viewing ads. Implementing ad insertion into a live streaming platform requires careful planning and integration with multiple systems (including video […]

The need for organizations and users to stream video to TVs, set-top-boxes, mobile viewers and websites is growing. As video streaming demands are surging, and so are costs. This blog walks you through visualizing and improving Amazon Web Services (AWS) Elemental MediaLive reservation utilization by creating an Amazon QuickSight dashboard using AWS Cost and Usage […]

When Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched Amazon Elastic Transcoder in 2013 it served an important role in providing customers with a managed service for video-on-demand (VOD) transcoding. Since the release of AWS Elemental MediaConvert in 2017, continued improvements and new features have made it the more performant, cost-effective, and feature-rich VOD transcoding service. MediaConvert offers […]

When Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched AWS Elemental MediaStore during AWS re:Invent 2017, it served an important role in augmenting Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) to provide robust live video origination. Over the last six years, Amazon S3 has made functional and performance improvements that make it more suitable as a live video streaming […]

The media and entertainment industry has been requesting more flexibility in how they manage their on-premises infrastructure. This includes how they distribute content locally, and contribute content to Media Services on Amazon Web Services (AWS), while maintaining quality and reliability. With the new feature AWS Elemental MediaLive Anywhere (MediaLive Anywhere), media customers now have the […]

Pioneering live streaming tech from IMAX and AWS brings immersive sports events to giant screens globally without buffering, offering unparalleled viewing quality under 20mbps bitrate.

What is AV1 AV1 was developed as a state-of-the-art video codec for distribution over the web by the Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia), which consists of representation from several companies including Amazon, Apple, Netflix, Intel, and Nvidia, and others. It’s designed to succeed AVC, VP9, and HEVC as a next generation of natively supported video […]