AWS Elemental MediaLive

AWS Elemental MediaLive Anywhere

Cloud-controlled live video encoding on your own infrastructure

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Benefits

Streamline

Streamline live video operations

Simplify

Simplify on-premises video processing

Migrate easily

Migrate easily to the cloud

Increase efficiency

Increase streaming efficiency

Overview

MediaLive Anywhere is a feature of AWS Elemental MediaLive that lets you run live video encoding on premises while using the cloud for management. MediaLive Anywhere is deployed on your hardware to process video on premises while configuration, control, monitoring, and management tasks are done in the cloud. You can use MediaLive Anywhere to minimize video transit, improve hybrid workflow operations, and connect to on premises video sources and destinations.

AWS Elemental MediaLive Anywhere consists of a pay-as-you-go service that requires one or more appliances to run. AWS recommends you purchase hardware from AWS Partners that assemble, integrate, test, and support systems for use with MediaLive Anywhere. If you are interested in using other appliances with MediaLive Anywhere, please contact sales.

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Use Cases

Video contribution

High-quality contribution of live video to the cloud for further processing and distribution.

Encode from on-premises sources

Connect to video sources anchored on premises, such as SDI video.

Distribute video to a locally managed network

Keep signals close to managed networks and send video to local or remote network destinations.

Migrate to the cloud

Prepare for cloud migration while waiting for existing investments to expire.

Pricing

Overview

With the MediaLive Anywhere service, you only pay for channels running on instances managed by the service. No long-term commitments or upfront payments are needed. Hourly rates are charged based on the codec and the highest output resolution for each running channel, regardless of the number of inputs or outputs. There are no additional charges for AWS Elemental MediaLive add-on features such as advanced audio, audio normalization, and motion graphics. MediaLive Anywhere pricing is the same regardless of AWS Region.

Pricing

AVC

Resolution	Price per hour
SD	$0.0668
HD	$0.1335
UHD	$0.5341

HEVC

Resolution	Price per hour
SD	$0.2670
HD	$0.5341
UHD	$2.1364

AV1

Resolution	Price per hour
SD	$0.3738
HD	$0.7477

Audio Only

Audio Only

$0.0167

Additional charges

MediaLive Anywhere requires the AWS Systems Manager Agent (SSM Agent) to authenticate and register your on-premises instances. You may be charged for registering your on-premises instances with AWS Systems Manager if you have over 1000 instances per account per region at any point of time. Visit the AWS Systems Manager pricing page for more details.

You will also be charged for data transfer based on standard AWS data transfer fees for communication between the ECS Anywhere control plane and ECS agent that occurs through VPN or AWS Direct Connect. You will not be charged for data transfer when communication between the Amazon ECS Anywhere control plane and ECS agent occurs over the open Internet.