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AWS Media Solutions explained

AWS offers the most purpose-built media services, software, and appliances of any cloud to make creating, transforming, and delivering digital content fast and easy. With pay-as-you-go Media Services and advanced video processing appliances, you can produce high-impact creative projects and outstanding viewing experiences.

Why Media Services on AWS

Focus on content

Eliminate the overhead of managing physical infrastructure and minimize manual integration and administration of creative, compute, and storage resources. With AWS, you can focus on creating and delivering innovative content and experiences that delight your customers.

Build, adapt, and innovate

AWS offers the broadest choice of cloud services with the deepest functionality, making it simple and economical for creatives and media professionals to scale resources and innovate with machine learning services and analytics. Build, test, and launch quickly, then adapt, grow, and improve without the burden of capacity planning.

Scale to meet demand

Hire and equip the best creative talent regardless of location. Reliably scale to meet the demands of your projects, content requirements, or audience size with services built on the broadest global infrastructure. Achieve broadcast levels of reliability with services built on the AWS Region/Availability Zones model to provide high availability.

Access unmatched speed and security

AWS Media Services are built on the most secure global infrastructure where you always own your media, including the ability to encrypt it, move it, and manage retention. With the AWS global network, securely ingest and deliver video streams with low latency and empower creative talent with single-digit millisecond virtual workstations using AWS Local Zones.

Content Creation

AWS Media Services enable creative customers to spend less time managing hardware and render farms, and more time creating and collaborating. Set up, deploy, and scale cloud-based rendering capabilities in only a few steps to deliver complex projects faster—and bring on remote artists from anywhere around the globe with availability in major content creation markets, so you can hire the best talent and onboard them quickly.

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Deadline Cloud

Set up a render farm in minutes
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Thinkbox Deadline

Scalable and flexible compute render management
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Krakatoa

Render production-grade volumetrics
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Frost

Build your particle meshes from multiple sources
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Stoke

Simplify particle simulations for Autodesk 3ds Max
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XMesh

Increase file loading speeds for animated scene geometry

Content Distribution

Customers choose AWS Media Services to transport, prepare, process, and deliver live and on-demand content in the cloud. These managed services let you build and adapt video workflows quickly, eliminate capacity planning, easily scale with growth, and benefit from pay-as-you-go pricing. Connect with other AWS services and third-party applications for media storage, machine learning, content protection, monetization campaigns, and more.

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MediaConnect

Reliable, secure, and flexible transport for live video
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MediaConvert

Prepare file-based video assets for on-demand broadcast and multiscreen delivery
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MediaLive

Convert inputs into live outputs for broadcast and multiscreen video delivery
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MediaPackage

Originate and package live and on-demand video content
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MediaStore

Originate and store video assets for live or on-demand media workflows
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MediaTailor

Personalize and monetize multiscreen video content with server-side ad insertion
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Interactive Video Service

Build engaging live stream experiences with a managed video service
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Kinesis Video Streams

Capture, process, and store video streams for analytics and machine learning

AWS Elemental Appliances & Software

For some customers, components of the video workflow need to be deployed on-premises, such as processing baseband SDI video sources for live video, or integrating video processing with local storage resources. AWS Elemental Appliances and Software come in two variants: ready-to-deploy appliances, or AWS-licensed software that you install on your own hardware, so you can deploy video processing and delivery solutions on-premises where you need them.

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AWS Elemental Live

Convert inputs into live outputs for broadcast and multiscreen video delivery
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AWS Elemental Conductor Live

Manage video networks for live and on-demand content
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AWS Elemental Statmux

Process live video channels using statistical multiplexing
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AWS Elemental Link

Connect a live video source to AWS

Customers

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Kayo

"With over 30,000 hours of content and game-changing features, it’s critical we deliver the best possible experience to sports-loving Aussies. AWS helps Kayo do this through its fast pace of innovation, with constantly evolving tools that help us deliver a world class experience."

- Thomas Kaurin

Director of Technology, Kayo

About Kayo

Kayo Sports offers Australia’s sports fans a massive selection of more than 50 live sports powered by FOX SPORTS Australia, ESPN, and beIN SPORTS.

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Pac-12

"To stay ahead of technology at a fraction of the traditional cost, we turned to the cloud with AWS which offers end-to-end ingest-to-delivery workflow support... Moving to AWS Cloud allowed us to move faster, increased our ability to scale, and created new opportunities for content creation and distribution."

- Mark Kramer

VP, Engineering and Technology, Pac-12 Networks

About Pac-12 Networks

The sports media production arm of the Pac-12 Conference, is on a mission to connect fans to the universities and sports they love.

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Fox Sports

"FOX SPORTS is at the vanguard of sports broadcast innovation. To deliver live sport of this volume to our subscribers requires scale. We have implemented the AWS Cloud to leverage the end-to-end live event and content monetization workflows only available in the cloud through AWS Elemental Media Services."

- Alastair Robertson

Chief Technology Officer, FOX SPORTS Australia

About Fox Sports

FOX SPORTS Australia Pty Limited (FOX SPORTS) is Australia’s leading producer of sports coverage and is home to Australia’s favorite subscription television sports channels as well as Australia’s number one multi-sports website and app.

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BT

“The ease of use of these AWS console-based services for end-to-end workflows will provide a level of flexibility and efficiency that will be a game changer for our industry while providing a flexible option that can coexist with legacy on-premises live and on-demand infrastructures deployments.” 

- Ian Parr

Director TV and Broadband Infrastructure, BT

About BT

BT is one of the world’s leading communications services companies, serving customers in the UK and more than 170 countries.

Use cases

Streaming Media - Low-latency

Amazon Interactive Video Service can make live video available to viewers in seconds, ideal for use cases that need new streams at a moment’s notice. With low-latency live video that's simple to set up and use, you can focus on building engaging interactive experiences and applications for your viewers.

Related AWS services

Amazon Interactive Video Service

Use case resources

Amazon IVS: Add Live Video to Your Apps and Websites

AWS What's Next Featuring Amazon IVS

Live Streaming with Amazon Interactive Video Service

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Distribution

Highly available, fully managed, cloud-based statmux encoding for primary distribution.

Related AWS services

Amazon S3

AWS Elemental MediaLive

AWS Elemental MediaConnect

Use case resources

Statmux for better broadcasts

Statmux now available with AWS Elemental MediaLive

Introducing AWS Elemental MediaLive

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Monetization

Insert individually targeted advertisements into video streams at scale.

Related AWS services

Amazon CloudFront

AWS Elemental MediaTailor

Use case resources

Monetize video assets using AWS media solutions

Monetizing VOD assets using ad markers

Introducing AWS Elemental MediaTailor

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