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Category: Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)
Using Amazon S3 Vectors (preview) to semantically search using a media lake on AWS
Many media organizations face challenges in managing and discovering content across their digital libraries. Relying on manual searches of file names, or folder structures, can result in duplicated work and underutilized assets—impacting productivity and content monetization opportunities for re-using and creating content. The emergence of AI-powered semantic search introduces complexity and cost considerations for media […]
Introducing: Guidance for a media lake on AWS
Many companies struggle to manage their vast collections of digital media files stored across multiple Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) buckets. This scattered storage approach can create significant challenges for organizations. Searching for specific content can be difficult and time-consuming (with organizing files effectively becoming a complex task) making extracting the full value from […]
Racing against time: How SRO Motorsports cut inspection time by 83% with AWS
In the high-octane world of racing, precision and fairness are non-negotiable. SRO Motorsports America (SRO), the organization behind GT World Challenge America, partnered with Amazon Web Services (AWS) Professional Services to revolutionize how race car compliance is verified—transforming a 90-minute manual process into an automated system that takes less than 15 minutes. This collaboration not […]
Securing your origin for Media and Entertainment workflows
Media streaming applications face increasing security challenges from unauthorized content access and redistribution. We’ll examine common security threats to streaming workflows and provide practical solutions to protect content using Amazon Web Services (AWS). Security challenges in media streaming When your streaming application lacks proper security measures, unauthorized users can: Access and redistribute your content without […]
FOX continues to deliver record-breaking Super Bowl broadcasts with AWS
While the National Football League (NFL) may be in the offseason, the FOX digital video platform team is already planning for the next Super Bowl broadcast. Raising the bar, yet again, will be no small feat considering FOX’s Super Bowl LIX stream shattered previous records. In preparing for Super Bowl LIX, the FOX digital video […]
Increase engagement with localized content using Amazon Bedrock Flows
Content producers and publishers have large collections with thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of articles that could be localized for new audiences and geographies to deliver increased engagement to novel and emerging markets. Localization is broadly, the process of transforming content (lexical choice, tone shift and translation) for new audiences from one geography to […]
Banijay Entertainment supercharges creativity with Base Media Cloud and AWS
As audiences around the world watch and engage with content in new ways, Banijay Entertainment wants to ensure it remains nimble and responsive to new opportunities. With this in mind, the content powerhouse is undertaking a digital transformation with the help of Base Media Cloud (base) and Amazon Web Services (AWS). The aim is to […]
Whatnot bolsters real-time live stream resiliency with Amazon IVS
Community is at the heart of live shopping destinations like the wildly popular Whatnot. The online marketplace surpassed $3 billion in gross merchandise volume in 2024 and is on track to top that achievement in 2025. People from around the world converge on the platform daily to forge connections and purchase items that they love, […]
New guidance and tools: Cloud-native fast-turnaround media workflows on AWS
At NAB 2025 (April 6-9, 2025), Amazon Web Services (AWS) is launching new guidance and tools for cloud-native fast-turnaround media workflows as part of the Cloud-native Agile Production (CNAP) program. The CNAP program is a collaboration project between AWS, the BBC, Sky and AWS Partners. CNAP is based on BBC Research & Development’s (BBC R&D) […]
AWS Audio Innovation showcase at NAB 2025
At NAB 2025, April 5-9 in Las Vegas, NV, Amazon Web Services (AWS) will present four integrated demonstrations focused on audio innovation that feature AWS Cloud services and AWS Partner solutions. These demonstrations bring together complete audio workflows including podcast and radio programming creation, content analysis and summarization, metadata creation and tagging, and live transcription […]