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The International Broadcasting Convention (IBC), held annually each fall in Amsterdam, provides a forum for forging new connections, reconnecting with old friends, and prompting productive conversations about the media and entertainment (M&E) industry, as well as topics like AI, sustainability, and diversity, equity, and inclusion. Amazon Web Services (AWS) participated in IBC 2024 with more […]

This blog was co-written by Byron Chapman, Director Media Asset Management & Media Workflows, PGA TOUR and Andres Carjuzaa, Co-Founder & CTO, Around. The PGA TOUR is the world’s premier membership organization for touring professional golfers. It co-sanctions tournaments on the PGA TOUR along with several other developmental, senior, and international tournament series. Housing, managing, […]

Background Today, broadcast, live streaming, and video distribution customers with on-premises sources or local network destinations have a range of choices when building live video workflows. These options all have trade-offs, and none are ideal when hybrid deployments on both ground and cloud are required. Customers can purchase and deploy on-premises encoding appliances and software, […]

With the annual International Broadcasting Convention (IBC) around the corner, Amazon Web Services (AWS) is gearing up to showcase the latest media & entertainment (M&E) innovations from artificial intelligence (AI) to live cloud production solutions. In addition to hosting meetings and demos in its double-decker stand (5.C90) in Hall 5 at the RAI from September […]

AWS Deadline Cloud is a fully managed service from Amazon Web Services (AWS) that enables you to have a scalable, fully managed visual compute farm up and running in minutes. Executing render jobs for digital content creation (DCC) applications like Blender, Houdini, Maya, and Nuke can be a rapid, turnkey experience with Deadline Cloud Sevice-Managed Fleets […]

The Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity brings together thousands of advertising, marketing, and media and entertainment (M&E) professionals from around the world. This year, the event kicks off on June 17. Amazon returns to Cannes Lions with a new look for the Amazon Port: “A’Maison: The House of Amazon”, which draws inspiration from the […]

In this blog post, we explore how Swimming Australia uses AWS Panorama from Amazon Web Services (AWS) to perform real-time computer vision (CV) inference at the edge with state-of-the-art computer vision models. We describe how to integrate an end user application with AWS Panorama along with the rationale for design strategies and their impact. This solution features services such as AWS Panorama for machine learning (ML) at the edge, Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) for messaging, Amazon Kinesis Video Stream for video streaming, and AWS App Runner for the end user application.

Live sports production has followed the same formula for decades. To send broadcasts out to fans, production teams have relied on massive production trucks to distribute game feeds from arenas to a fixed control room with workstations and production gear. The National Hockey League (NHL), one of the biggest sports leagues worldwide, is shaping the […]

As the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Show returns to Las Vegas, Nevada April 13-17, 2024, Amazon Web Services (AWS) is fully embodying the Show’s motto, ‘Where Content Comes to Life,’ with a live cloud-powered newsroom production demonstration in collaboration with NVIDIA. AWS for media and entertainment (M&E) solutions that enable customers to create, deliver, […]

Just as National Football League (NFL) players train and practice to constantly improve, the NFL continually seeks new ways to make the game safer for its players, and more exciting for fans. A key element of this effort is development of the Digital Athlete, a joint effort between the NFL and Amazon Web Services (AWS) […]