Digital Media on AWS
Amazon Web Services provides a set of secure and on-demand storage, archive, computing, transcoding, streaming, and application services for media companies.
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“I can’t imagine having been able to do very many of the things that we’ve done without the benefit of a platform like this.”
- Jon Brendsel, PBS
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“In the past when we had critical encoding tasks in front of us we would sometimes spin up many thousands of servers, and complete the task within a matter of hours or a few days, and then spin it down when we no longer needed it.”
- Yuri Izrailevsky, VP of Cloud and Platform Engineering
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“The five-year total cost of ownership (TCO) of developing, deploying, and managing critical applications in Amazon cloud infrastructure represents a 70% savings compared with deploying the same resources on-premise or in hosted environments.”
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Capabilities
From camera to customer.
With our comprehensive set of services and rich partner ecosystem, you can easily transfer, store, archive, encode, stream, and protect your media.
Secure infrastructure services.
Amazon Web Services publishes a Service Organization Controls 1 (SOC 1), Type 2 report. In addition, AWS has achieved ISO 27001, PCI DSS Level 1, and FISMA compliance.
Add machines to process faster.
With Amazon EC2 you can deploy 1000s of machines, configure them with the encoding software you choose, encode your entire library, and shut the cluster down when you’re done.
Storage simplified.
With Amazon S3, you can add any amount of content and access it from anywhere. Amazon S3 is designed to provide 99.999999999% durability over a given year and offers encryption and access control features.
Stream everything.
Amazon CloudFront is a global content delivery network with dozens of locations worldwide, so your media streams fast. Amazon CloudFront is easy to use and low cost.
Archive it for a rainy day.
With Amazon Glacier you get the same 11 9s data durability as Amazon S3 and pay as little as .01 per gigabyte per month. With your data in Glacier, you can leverage our other service to quickly distribute older content when it becomes popular.
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Buckle up, it's transfer time.
With Amazon Direct Connect you can bypass the internet and set up 1Gb or 10Gb direct connections from your datacenters to the AWS Cloud. We also have technology partners who can transfer large files over the internet at up-to 700Mb/s.
Low and flexible pricing.
Since 2006 we have lowered our pricing 20 times, and we offer five pricing models for Amazon EC2 to help you lower your costs.
Use Cases
Encoding
Use AWS to encode your media library. Amazon Elastic Transcoder makes it easy to convert video files between different digital media formats in the cloud.
Streaming
Use AWS to stream your on-demand and live video. Amazon CloudFront is our global content delivery network (CDN).
Storage and Archive
Use AWS for your primary, backup, and archive storage.
Web and Mobile Apps
Amazon Web Services provides a set of compute, storage, database, and application services that make it easy to scale and maintain cost-effective internet-based apps that run fast.