Category: Application Services

For race organizers and sports teams, providing near real-time participant tracking across vast distances has traditionally required extensive physical infrastructure. With Amazon Location Service, you can now deliver immersive fan experiences by tracking athletes from motorsports to marathons at scale in the cloud. Whether it’s motorsports, cycling, running, or sailing, knowing participants’ locations in near […]

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 […]

At the 2024 International Broadcasting Convention (IBC), Amazon Web Services (AWS) will unveil the Cloud Native Agile Production (CNAP) project, an open-source initiative aimed at accelerating the creation and delivery of media during live production. Developed in collaboration with BBC’s research and development (R&D) team, Sky, and AWS Partners, including Adobe and CuttingRoom, CNAP debuts […]

This blog is co-authored by Steve Cockett, Sports Data Adviser – Tech, at Warner Bros. Discovery and Andrea Fanfani, Principal Product Manager – Tech, at Warner Bros. Discovery. In this blog post, we explain how Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), a global media and entertainment company, used serverless components from Amazon Web Services (AWS) to improve […]

Generative AI offers exciting new possibilities for creatives. In this blog series, we explore different generative AI models for image editing. In Part 1, we developed an AI-powered eraser using Segment Anything Model (SAM) and Big LaMa model hosted on Amazon SageMaker. In just a few clicks, we can remove any unwanted objects from an image. […]

AWS Elemental MediaConvert provides broadcast-grade video and audio file transcoding that customers can automate with code to suit their media workflows. With optimized integration for AWS Step Functions in MediaConvert, it is now possible to orchestrate using the low-code visual tool Workflow Studio. This makes building and customizing media workflows accessible even with limited coding experience. This blog post […]

For linear broadcast television, it is common to rerun successful programs to fill available time slots. Often, episodes may need to be edited down and, at times, entire scenes may need to be removed to conform to an allotted time slot. This creates complexity because under a particular type of contract, artists have performance rights […]

Live sports online streaming is a fast-growing market, forecast to grow from USD $18.6B in 2021 to USD $93.1B by 2027, a compound annual growth rate of 24.64% from 2022 to 2030. Sports streaming platforms continually advance, employing diverse strategies to delight users and enrich viewer engagement. These tactics encompass extended statistics and match facts, augmented […]

Introduction In the dynamic realm of media and entertainment, the demand for innovative solutions is pronounced. Multi-tenant applications allow diverse stakeholders to coexist within a single ecosystem while harnessing shared resources. Yet, as the digital landscape continues to evolve, so do the challenges associated with optimizing resource allocation, cost efficiency, and performance management. As the […]

Introduction Today, media and entertainment companies own a large number of legacy media content that was created in low or standard resolutions before high-resolution technology was available—for instance, movies, television shows, music videos, and sports highlight clips. Given today’s advancements in display technology, it’s common for audiences to demand video content to be delivered in […]