Category: Media Services

We are pleased to announce the official release of Guidance for Media2Cloud on AWS version 4.0. This release offers enhancements that assist Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers in monetizing their media archives, generating content metadata more cost effectively, and leveraging generative AI to produce new kinds of content metadata. The new version of Media2Cloud still […]

The Amazon Web Services (AWS) for Media & Entertainment Monetization solution area provides services and solutions to help media and entertainment companies deliver, optimize, and monetize their content across multiple platforms and channels, increasing revenue streams and creating more efficient monetization of their content assets. The 2024 NAB Show kicks off April 13 in Las […]

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 […]

Introduction AWS Elemental MediaConvert is a file-based video transcoding service with broadcast-grade features. The service can create on-demand video assets for playback on virtually any device. Because video processing with MediaConvert is managed and the service scales with fluctuations in demand, customers need granular observability of their encoding jobs. For example, customers may want to […]

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 […]

AWS Deadline Cloud is a scalable, fully managed render scheduler from Amazon Web Services (AWS) for teams that need a better way to create ground-breaking visual content. To power the elastic workloads creative teams require, Deadline Cloud organizes Workers into Fleets. The Workers run Jobs given to them by Queues, which are collections of Jobs […]

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 […]

With the release of program rules, it is now possible to define alternate media for audience cohorts using AWS Elemental MediaTailor Channel Assembly. This provides customers with an easy and cost effective way to create up to 50 unique audiences on a channel, for use cases such as market-based localization according to content rights or segments of […]

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 […]

The HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) protocol allows delivery of live streams to global-scale audiences. Historically, HLS has favored stream reliability over latency. Low-Latency HLS (LL-HLS) is an extension of the protocol that appeared in 2020 in the 2nd edition of the specification, enabling low-latency video streaming while maintaining scalability. It allows reduction of live streaming […]