Category: Media Services

As live video streaming becomes increasingly crucial for media and entertainment businesses, effective observability of your Amazon Web Services (AWS) Elemental MediaConnect (MediaConnect) resources is essential for maintaining reliable video transport. MediaConnect automatically provides useful operational metrics through Amazon CloudWatch, giving you immediate visibility into the performance of the service. However, there’s substantially valuable data […]

It can be challenging for studios and artists who want to leverage the power of the managed infrastructure of Amazon Web Services (AWS) Deadline Cloud while continuing to use Autodesk 3ds Max in their workflows. We’ll show you how to overcome this limitation by using configuration scripts to enable 3ds Max on service-managed fleets (SMFs). […]

This blog was co-authored by Jun Ye, Graphics and Automation Technology Manager of Nine Network. When Nine Network (Nine) faced the dilemma of aging edit suites and mounting hardware costs in their Brisbane studios, they didn’t just see a problem—they saw an opportunity. The traditional approach would have been straightforward: replace hardware (server, processor, memory, […]

This blog is co-authored by Mark Osborn, Principal Software Engineer at CoStar Group. Seeking greater control over their video transcoding capabilities while reducing costs and enhancing quality for their customers, CoStar Group embarked on a transformative solution. Let’s dive into how CoStar brought their video transcoding and distribution backends in house using Amazon Web Services […]

As a top choice for video on demand (VOD) transcoding, Amazon Web Services (AWS) Elemental MediaConvert (MediaConvert) now offers volume-based discounts that automatically apply as your usage increases. The more minutes of media you process with MediaConvert, the less you pay for every minute of video output. Let’s explore how the new pricing model works and […]

Today’s streaming platforms handle both high-value media, like premium sports, and confidential information, such as enterprise video communications. This evolution requires that the underlying infrastructure be protected with enterprise-grade security. Streaming is now essential infrastructure for businesses far beyond traditional media. It powers critical operations across industries, including secure financial announcements, HIPAA-compliant telemedicine, global manufacturing […]

Your streaming content is taking off, viewership is soaring and ad revenue is increasing. However, the costs of monitoring all those streaming sessions, and remaining operational, are also increasing. Sound familiar? Streaming services face this challenge every day as they scale their server-side ad insertion (SSAI) streaming operations. We are excited to share how Amazon […]

As the demand for live video streams grows rapidly, broadcasters and producers face significant complexity and cost challenges to make the content available for global, multi-lingual audiences. Live dubbing the audio track to another spoken language has traditionally been a highly manual process, which adds significant cost and complexity for producers. Thanks to the latest […]

Dynamic ad insertion for live sports is notoriously complex. Unlike video-on-demand (VOD), live event streams drive sustained viewer concurrency as fans tune in simultaneously, which can overwhelm the AdTech decisioning path. This impacts supply-side platform (SSP) and demand-side platform (DSP) interactions, programmatic insertions, and stitching, among other workflow aspects. Further complicating matters, ad breaks are […]

Streaming video providers face the ongoing challenge of maximizing ad revenue while preserving viewer engagement. The challenge lies in delivering seamless advertisements (ads) that integrate with content without causing buffering delays, quality degradation, or playback interruptions that drive viewers away. AWS Partner Olyzon has developed an innovative solution using the preconditioned ads of Amazon Web […]