AWS for M&E Blog

Category: Networking & Content Delivery

Deep packet inspection for securing high-value streaming content in the cloud

Today’s streaming platforms handle both high-value media, like premium sports, and confidential information, such as enterprise video communications. This evolution requires that the underlying infrastructure be protected with enterprise-grade security. Streaming is now essential infrastructure for businesses far beyond traditional media. It powers critical operations across industries, including secure financial announcements, HIPAA-compliant telemedicine, global manufacturing […]

Reduce SSAI costs using new features in AWS Elemental MediaTailor

Your streaming content is taking off, viewership is soaring and ad revenue is increasing. However, the costs of monitoring all those streaming sessions, and remaining operational, are also increasing. Sound familiar? Streaming services face this challenge every day as they scale their server-side ad insertion (SSAI) streaming operations. We are excited to share how Amazon […]

Using Amazon S3 Vectors (preview) to semantically search using a media lake on AWS

Many media organizations face challenges in managing and discovering content across their digital libraries. Relying on manual searches of file names, or folder structures, can result in duplicated work and underutilized assets—impacting productivity and content monetization opportunities for re-using and creating content. The emergence of AI-powered semantic search introduces complexity and cost considerations for media […]

Introducing: Guidance for a media lake on AWS

Many companies struggle to manage their vast collections of digital media files stored across multiple Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) buckets. This scattered storage approach can create significant challenges for organizations. Searching for specific content can be difficult and time-consuming (with organizing files effectively becoming a complex task) making extracting the full value from […]

Integrating AI-based audio dubbing into live streaming with AWS Media Services and CAMB.AI

As the demand for live video streams grows rapidly, broadcasters and producers face significant complexity and cost challenges to make the content available for global, multi-lingual audiences. Live dubbing the audio track to another spoken language has traditionally been a highly manual process, which adds significant cost and complexity for producers. Thanks to the latest […]

Improve operational processes for AWS Elemental MediaConnect using AWS CDK

Managing encrypted Amazon Web Services (AWS) Elemental MediaConnect entitlements across AWS accounts can be challenging, particularly when dealing with secret strings and upstream changes. We will demonstrate, with code examples, how AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) can be leveraged to create a pattern for securing the sharing of secret strings. It will also provide […]

Enabling real-time audio using multicast on AWS

This blog was coauthored by Patrick McCoy, Chief Product Officer of swXtch and John Schur, President at Telos Alliance TV Solutions Group. Reliable, low-latency solutions are critical in the media and entertainment industry. This is especially true for intercom systems serving live production teams working across multiple locations. Producers, directors, camera operators, audio engineers, roving […]

Contribute content to AWS using NDI with AWS Elemental MediaConnect

The secure and reliable Ingest of live video content to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud over NDI® (Network Device Interface) has previously been a challenge for our customers. With the addition of NDI outputs in AWS Elemental MediaConnect (MediaConnect), you can now directly ingest live video to AWS and convert it to NDI for […]

Securing your origin for Media and Entertainment workflows

Media streaming applications face increasing security challenges from unauthorized content access and redistribution. We’ll examine common security threats to streaming workflows and provide practical solutions to protect content using Amazon Web Services (AWS). Security challenges in media streaming When your streaming application lacks proper security measures, unauthorized users can: Access and redistribute your content without […]

FOX continues to deliver record-breaking Super Bowl broadcasts with AWS

While the National Football League (NFL) may be in the offseason, the FOX digital video platform team is already planning for the next Super Bowl broadcast. Raising the bar, yet again, will be no small feat considering FOX’s Super Bowl LIX stream shattered previous records. In preparing for Super Bowl LIX, the FOX digital video […]