Resources

E-Books

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    Chase down FAST profitability

    This e-book for media and entertainment (M&E) leaders, business development managers, and technology teams, shows how to maximize revenue and minimize costs when launching Free Ad-Supported TV (FAST) channels using solutions from Amazon Web Services (AWS) and AWS Partners

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    Transform your broadcast technology on the cloud

    In this eBook, examine how the cloud is transforming broadcast. Discover solutions from Amazon Web Services (AWS) and AWS Partners designed to enhance and improve the broadcast workflow, and read how real customers in the broadcast industry are succeeding by modernizing on the cloud.

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    Engage your audience with machine learning powered experiences

    In this eBook, we’ll demonstrate how your company can create engaging audience experiences through machine learning-powered solutions—and provide examples of other businesses in your industry that are creating fascinating, captivating experiences with machine learning today.

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    Over-the-Top: The cloud based path to innovation

    The technology infrastructure you choose influences the degree of success you achieve in the increasingly competitive OTT video market. This e-book discusses the accelerating growth in OTT markets, compares hardware- and cloud-based approaches to creating live and on-demand OTT video workflows, and gives specific examples of companies that use cloud-based OTT video services.

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    Use the cloud to deliver great fan experiences

    Nurturing digital relationships with fans means delivering “right-now” OTT live sports offerings that meet broadcast-grade. The cloud is the great equalizer, allowing anyone to deliver personalized experiences and cutting-edge apps for the superfan. This e-book explains how cloud media services and solutions can help you reduce video production costs, grow revenue, and tailor offerings to your specific audiences.

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    Accelerate your Media Workflows

    Amazon Web Services (AWS) has designed purpose-built solutions to help you innovate and accelerate your media workflows. Read how existing AWS customers are using solutions across their media value chain, from content production through to asset management and distribution, and get ideas for your own creative studio.

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    Video Processing and Delivery Moves to the Cloud

    As video quality, accessibility and utility skyrockets, how video providers create and deliver professional-grade video services changes dramatically. This e-book digs into the details behind the causes and effects of this shift. Learn about the benefits of moving video operations to the cloud, the pros and cons of conventional approaches, and tips for adapting to coming changes.

Webcasts

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    Broadcast in the Cloud

    From playout to primary distribution, statistical multiplexing to monitoring, discover how reliable distribution of 24x7 live video originating in AWS is in production today, and see how you can take advantage of the flexibility, agility, and scale of the AWS cloud.

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    Video Origination Services: Options, Trade-offs & How to Choose

    Learn about the design considerations, understand how to evaluate the trade-offs, and be confident in picking the right video origination service.  

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    Security for Content & Media Workflows

    In this 3 part webcast series, media and entertainment experts walk you through the questions, different approaches, important considerations, and the best proactive practices for securing your workflows so that the entire process is easy to implement, monitor, and manage.

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    Digital Content Creation on AWS

    Learn how creative studios can take advantage of the cloud to help with remote work, scale production pipelines, increase artist productivity, and reduce wall clock time to deliver projects. This five part series features presentations from Untold Studios, Hive VFX, Citesite, and a discussion hosted by postPerspective with NVIDIA, Tangent Studio, and AWS.

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    AWS Media Insights Webcast Series

    Join AWS media tech experts and customers for an online event exploring the latest media and entertainment innovations and solutions for content production, broadcast, OTT, and data science and machine learning. The 5-week series airs every Thursday from October 1 to October 29.

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    Strategies for Successful Live Event Streaming and How to Avoid Mistakes

    New video technologies make it possible for anyone to set up and run a live streaming video event. In this webcast, experts discuss the latest tools, tips, and considerations that organizations operating in any industry need to know to turn live event streaming concepts into pain-free productions.

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    Augmenting Full-Motion Video PED Analysis with Machine Learning

    Warfighter analysis tools must be mission-critical ready for engagement at all times. Register for this webcast and learn how to extend your video encoding capabilities from ground and air operations to disconnected edge environments and to handheld mobile devices. Learn ways to improve processing, exploitation and dissemination with the latest artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies.

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    HEVC Migration, Fragmented MP4 and CMAF

    In this webcast, experts from AWS Elemental will highlight the history of HEVC, the benefits of migrating from AVC to HEVC, and what this transition means for video providers. Gain fundamental knowledge about the convergence of fMP4, CMAF and HEVC and the requirements to make the shift.

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    HEVC: The Past, Present & Future Explained

    The benefits of leveraging the exceptionally efficient video compression techniques of HEVC / H.265 – with no sacrifice to video quality – are well known. But Apple’s recent commitment to hardware support raises questions. In this webcast, we’ll explain how we got here, discuss the ways AWS Elemental implements HEVC, show you how our customers use it, and look at where HEVC is headed.

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    Foundational Concepts: Video Compression, Processing and Delivery

    In this webcast, you will learn how to create and deliver video over the internet, walk away with an understanding of video codecs, containers, popular delivery methods and content delivery networks, and learn about the latest trends in video compression and delivery.

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    Intro to QVBR: Quality-Defined Variable Bitrate Control

    QVBR is your antidote for inconsistent viewing quality caused by video complexity. QVBR saves you up to 50% for both CDN egress and storage. How? It delivers constant video quality and wastes zero bits. It’s also easy, simple, and quick to configure. Join us for an in-depth discussion of how QVBR works, its uses, and its advantages.

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    Behind the Stream

    Behind The Stream is an online show designed for sports media broadcasters, athletic teams, and digital rights holders, brought to you by AWS video experts. Tune in to get insights, insider tips, and inspiration about how to use AWS media solutions for your next live streaming event.

White Papers

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    Uncompressed Media Over IP on AWS

    This white paper offers guidance for broadcasters and media organizations transitioning to IP, and demystifies common misconceptions with the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) 2110 standards and associated IP technologies. It explains why organizations transition from Serial Digital Interface (SDI) to IP workflows and covers important topics related to workflow design, synchronization, clocking, and uncompressed contribution using AWS Elemental Live.

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    Building Resilient, High-Quality Live Video Workflow

    For many viewers, the allure of live streamed events provides the motivation to subscribe and renew. But for many content providers, guaranteeing live streaming success is the most challenging part of media operations.  Learn what you need to know to get live streaming right.

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    Machine Learning Fundamentals for Corporate Streaming Video

    With minimal effort, companies can use existing, sophisticated solutions to make their corporate streaming video workflows much more efficient, and without additional time, expense, and expertise.

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    Server Side Ad Insertion

    Is server-side ad insertion (SSAI) better than client-side ad insertion (CSAI)? How do they differ? Which works best for OTT content monetization? How does the cloud enable more scalable solutions? This white paper answers these questions and more.

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    Achieving Broadcast-Grade Low Latency in Live Streaming

    For a long time, OTT video streams over the internet have been lagging behind broadcast TV and social media by 15-30 seconds if not more. It's been a frustrating problem for both viewers and content providers. New knowledge, technologies, and practices are making long-standing video latency problems for live streaming a thing of the past.

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    Achieving Great Video Quality without breaking the bank

    Video delivery over the internet or any other channel is more than a matter of getting content from provider to viewer. To your audience, it's all about the quality of the viewing experience. If your video quality standards aren't high, your audience immediately knows and may go elsewhere to find it.

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    The Practical Guide to AWS Media Services

    AWS Media Services are designed to give you an easy path to cloud-based video processing and delivery. Virtually limitless capacity, performance to scale, the latest proven video standards, formats and protocols – and much more. Understand the benefits and learn how to deploy the services for discrete workloads or complete, end-to-end video workflows.

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    Live Video Delivery from the Cloud

    For broadcasters using traditional video infrastructure, the cost and complexity of maintaining video operations is a necessary evil. But to advocate for a change for the better, broadcasters need sound business reasons. This paper explains how cloud technologies take high costs and complexity off the table, and create mutually beneficial provider and customer relationships.

Getting Started

Learning Paths: Learn to create professional quality media experiences using AWS Elemental services.

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AWS Media for Industries

Broadcasting

Whether you’re a national broadcaster, independent station or an owned-and-operated affiliate, your business is based on superior service to your audience. AWS provides components for turnkey, virtualized or cloud-based deployments, resulting in unmatched flexibility and reduced cost and time-to-market. Engage and grow viewership while expanding delivery of broadcast content to new platforms.

Pay TV

AWS gives cable, satellite and telecom service providers the opportunity to reach subscribers in new and innovative ways, reduce costly infrastructure, and streamline workflow management. Look to AWS to drive efficiencies in your operational control, reduce bandwidth to reach more serviceable customers, or innovate with technologies such as 4K UHD for primary and multiscreen workflows.

Government

AWS empowers US federal, state and local government, and non-profit organizations by delivering industry-leading video solutions in support of operations. Video processing solutions from AWS Elemental enable government customers to overcome challenges, including bandwidth constraints, legacy infrastructure issues, support for multiple formats, and the ability to quickly and efficiently distribute video content at mission-critical levels of security.

Education

Video plays an important role in education, both for traditional K-12 and higher educational institutions and more crucially for distance learning such as online education where live and on-demand videos provide a connection to educators as well as to other students.

Corporate Streaming

AWS gives organizations of any size the ability to implement flexible and scalable video processing for highly distributed and personalized access to video. Whether you need live or on-demand content, extend your reach to stakeholders and broaden your impact with video solutions which enable a broad range of corporate streaming video applications.

Houses of Worship

Religious organizations can now ensure their ministries are more accessible to congregants through live and on-demand video streaming. With the ever-growing number of individuals connected online and able to access high-quality video content remotely, places of worship can help share their mission and message whenever, wherever, and however audiences view streaming content. AWS provides cost-effective, powerful, and easy-to-use media solutions for religious organizations to spread their ministry globally.

Fitness

Streaming video has become a key competitive advantage for fitness companies looking to differentiate and monetize valuable content. Traditional fitness gyms can leverage streaming video to extend the reach of their in-class offerings to a broader, more geographically-diverse member base. AWS provides solutions to quickly deploy live or on-demand streaming video of instructor-led classes, resulting in unmatched flexibility, reduced cost and time-to-market, and the scalability to accommodate a growing member base.

Nonprofits

AWS media solutions help nonprofit and non-governmental organizations inspire donors and volunteers, build trust in their brands, educate their supporters, and meet fundraising needs.

Workflows

OTT Video on AWS

Enhance security, simplicity and integration by building OTT workflows on AWS in the cloud – focus valuable resources on video innovation instead of infrastructure.

Live Sports Workflows on AWS

Use the cloud to deliver the live sports experience that keeps your audiences coming back for more.

Machine Learning & Analytics for Media

Make smarter content investments, better monetize your content library, and delight users with personalized experiences.

Monetize your Video Workflows

Optimize streaming video revenue opportunities while reducing your bottom line.

Migrate Media Workflows to AWS

Retire your technical debt and increase focus on innovating for your customers.

Media Technologies

Ad Insertion

Server-side ad insertion (SSAI) enables pay TV operators, broadcasters and publishers to dynamically insert personalized ads as video content is delivered to consumers, allowing video experiences to be monetized more effectively in real time.

Broadcast-Grade Video Latency for Live Streaming

Choose the right segment size for video packaging and learn the best practices to achieve low latency video in live streaming applications, such as TV sports, games, and news, and OTT e-sports and interactive shows.

High Dynamic Range (HDR)

HDR standards in development cover more than higher peak brightness and lower black levels. HDR also includes expanded color space, greater bit depth and static or dynamic metadata. As displays evolve, HDR challenges video providers to render images without running up against unworkable limitations.

High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC)

The compression efficiencies HEVC offer allow media companies to create higher quality video streams with lower bitrates than previous generation codecs. Results: Lower content delivery costs and improved viewer experiences.

Quality-Defined Variable Bitrate (QVBR) Control

QVBR is video quality consistency made easy and efficient. Set a fixed video quality level and a max bitrate. The encoder does the rest.

Machine Learning for Media Applications

For media and entertainment video providers, machine learning increases the value of video content and creates outstanding audience experiences.

Secure Packager and Encoder Key Exchange API

SPEKE is a royalty-free open source API specification that defines the standard for encrypted communication between video encoders, transcoders, origin servers, and digital rights management (DRM) system key servers for live and on-demand streaming video.

Live Video Streaming Resilience

Live video content must be supported by a resilient video streaming workflow that scales as requirements change. Audiences expect a resilient live video infrastructure that delivers a consistent stream, regardless of demand, degradation, or errors.

Accelerated Video Transcoding

Compressing video for delivery on-demand is processor-intensive, time-consuming, and can delay time-to-revenue for premium content. AWS designed Accelerated Transcoding to enable broadcasters, OTT distributors, and premium content providers to complete their video transcoding projects up to 25 times faster and bring content to market more quickly.

Video Quality Technologies

Video quality matters as much as content availability to viewers, so providers need to offer the highest VQ at the bitrates available to their customers. Explore high-performance and cost-efficient technologies for delivering a high-quality viewing experience.

Cloud-Based TV Broadcasting

TV broadcasters are exploring cloud-based architectures to solve existing problems and enable new opportunities. Learn what TV broadcasters find promising, and explore the benefits of increased agility and adaptability, improved cost management, new innovation possibilities, and more. 

Content Security for Media Workflows

What’s the recipe for media workflow security in the cloud? No video provider wants to be a target for malicious attacks, but the higher the demand for content, the greater the risks, and the more critical the right ingredients are. Learn what studios, live sports, events, and subscription content providers need to know.


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