Category: Broadcast

Nonprofit broadcaster Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is on a mission to serve Americans with trusted programming and resources that educate, entertain, and inspire. By building on Amazon Web Services (AWS), PBS is able to continually innovate while delivering high-quality broadcast and streaming content to more than 100 million viewers across 350 member stations and online, […]

NAB Show 2024 may have come and gone, but at Amazon Web Services (AWS), we’re still full of excitement. From the West Hall to South Hall of the LVCC and everywhere in between, the AWS for Media & Entertainment (M&E) team and technology were out in full force. To top it off, three of our […]

AWS Elemental MediaConvert provides broadcast-grade video and audio file transcoding that customers can automate with code to suit their media workflows. With optimized integration for AWS Step Functions in MediaConvert, it is now possible to orchestrate using the low-code visual tool Workflow Studio. This makes building and customizing media workflows accessible even with limited coding experience. This blog post […]

Introduction If you broadcast, stream, or distribute live video in the cloud, chances are you’ve spent time building, testing, and securing your workflows. Amazon Web Services (AWS) makes these tasks easy, so you can deliver high-quality experiences to your viewers. But how much time have you spent with the ongoing monitoring of your workflows? If […]

Introduction Amazon Web Services (AWS) and AWS Elemental have long-committed to providing the most versatile and feature-complete line of physical encoding appliances for our customers to use in their own data centers and technical operations centers (TOCs). We are pleased to announce that this commitment continues with the release of the next generation of AWS […]

Do you have existing 4K or 8K video-on-demand (VOD) assets that you would like to turn into linear channels? What are the challenges or obstacles preventing you from doing so? AWS Elemental MediaTailor Channel Assembly makes it easy for customers to add 4K linear channels to their lineup without incurring the high cost of purchasing […]

In April 2022, Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched the Live Cloud Production (LCP) Initiative with the objective of bridging technology gaps and expanding our broadcast solution portfolio in collaboration with AWS Partners. The aim is to deliver outcomes that benefit our current and future partners, customers, and the M&E community as a whole. In the […]

This blog was co-authored by Daniel Kamhaji, Associate Product Manager & Product Application Engineer, Waves Audio Ltd. Introduction In this blog post, we delve into innovations in cloud-based broadcast production as showcased by Amazon Web Services (AWS) Japan at Inter BEE, held at Makuhari Messe November 15—17, 2023. We explore the technologies and collaborations shaping […]

Cricket’s fanbase is burgeoning worldwide, especially with the sport returning to the Summer Games in 2028 for the first time since 1900. While the bat-and-ball game is popular in the UK, Australia, India, and South Africa, New Zealanders have also developed a passion for it, thanks to efforts by New Zealand Cricket (NZC). This governing […]

If you’re a professional or aspiring amateur data scientist, the Big Data Bowl should be on your radar. This annual competition, now in its sixth year, provides an open platform for engineers, data scientists, students, and analytics enthusiasts worldwide to get involved in football analytics—whether or not they have any sports experience. The Big Data Bowl […]