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Category: Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)

The evolution of broadcast cloud playout

This post is co-authored by Martin Whittaker – Technical Product Director, Evertz, Aekta Joshi – Sr. Cloud Infrastructure Architect – AWS ProServe M&E, and Mark Stephens, Partner Solutions Architect – AWS. 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 […]

BookTix takes live performances from on-stage to online with AWS

Putting together a live performance of any scale is a complex process with many moving parts, from securing and preparing the venue, performers, set, and dressings to attracting an audience and managing ticket sales. Until recently, the ticketing process for these events has either been through digital solutions or arduous manual approaches. The co-founders of […]

How iconik’s media management hub and AI accelerate remote collaboration

Authored by Parham Azimi, CEO at iconik. 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.   Video is no longer just for the media and entertainment industry. Today, prominent businesses in every vertical are becoming “media companies” […]

Free Fire ‘Project Cobra’ directed by Jon Saunders, Passion Pictures

Passion Pictures Scales Animation with AWS

Creative Studio Runs Simultaneous 4K Projects with Supercharged Cloud Pipeline Erste Group ‘#EdgarsChristmas’ directed by Kyra & Constantin, Passion Pictures Navigating significant entertainment industry shifts is a talent that comes naturally to Passion Pictures. Having been in the business of content production for more than three decades, the multifaceted studio has expanded its offerings and […]

Intertrust uses AWS to track climate change

Higher­­ temperatures, wilder weather, melting glaciers, rising sea levels, and thawing permafrost represent just a few of the shifting conditions on Earth that signal climate change. Carbon dioxide (CO2) or greenhouse gas emissions from daily human activities are major contributing factor to climate change. Between transportation, electricity production, industry, agriculture, forestry, and more, the US […]

Lexhag - Poldark

Creative Effects Studio Lexhag Virtualizes on AWS

With a background in special effects, founder Alexis Haggar established the boutique, UK-based visual effects studio in 2009 as a resource for filmmakers looking to solve creative problems. In the years since, Lexhag has been the sole visual effects vendor for many episodic television and feature film projects, most recently the BBC period drama “Poldark” […]

Amazon Transcribe and email integration

Amazon Transcribe makes it easy for developers to add speech to text capabilities (also known as ASR) to their applications. Audio data is virtually impossible for computers to search and analyze. Therefore, recorded speech needs to be converted to text before it can be used by business intelligence applications. This post shows how an audio […]

Processing user-generated content using AWS Lambda and FFmpeg

In this post, we introduce a workflow to process media files stored in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) using AWS Lambda that doesn’t require copying files to Lambda’s local storage. Lambda is equipped with temporary storage space of 512 MB, which is often not sufficient for media processing. At the same time, Lambda can […]

BandLab welcomes users by the millions with AWS

Based in Singapore, BandLab supports musicians around the world with tools and inspiration to create, collaborate, and publish their compositions. Artists use its free cloud-based digital audio workstation (DAW) to record, edit, and mix music with easy-to-use, professional-grade tools. BandLab’s integrated social and streaming capabilities let its users share the creative process with millions of […]

Amazon S3 Glacier for infinite video storage with Ross

This post is authored by Chris Kelly, Product Manager, Asset Management & Storage, Ross Video. 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. As a Product Manager for a Video Asset Management System, I’m intimately aware of […]