Category: Announcements

When Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched AWS Elemental MediaStore during AWS re:Invent 2017, it served an important role in augmenting Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) to provide robust live video origination. Over the last six years, Amazon S3 has made functional and performance improvements that make it more suitable as a live video streaming […]

Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS) launches a free digital learning plan: AWS for Media & Entertainment – Content Production Foundations. The learning plan provides training that allows content production teams to upskill their staff on cloud workflows. It is the second learning plan created by AWS Media & Entertainment (M&E) solution experts to train executives […]

Background Today, broadcast, live streaming, and video distribution customers with on-premises sources or local network destinations have a range of choices when building live video workflows. These options all have trade-offs, and none are ideal when hybrid deployments on both ground and cloud are required. Customers can purchase and deploy on-premises encoding appliances and software, […]

Representatives from AWS Partners, AWS Solutions Architecture, and Prime Video at the July 2024 JPEG XS interop in Culver City, CA. At the end of July 2024, Amazon Prime Video in Culver City, CA, hosted an interoperability workshop for multiple Amazon Web Services (AWS) partner hardware and software vendors that use the JPEG XS video […]

Many Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers in media and entertainment (M&E) today work with Amazon Publisher Services (APS), part of Amazon Ads, which helps publishers build, grow, and monetize their digital businesses through a suite of tools and cloud services. These customers also run broadcasting, streaming, and analytics workloads using AWS Media Services, such as […]

More than 61,000 media and entertainment (M&E) industry professionals from 163 countries gathered in Las Vegas, Nevada, earlier this month to network, explore emerging technologies, and discuss the trends shaping the future of content production, delivery, and monetization at NAB Show 2024. Amazon Web Services (AWS) pulled out all the stops for the show, including […]

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 […]

Authored by Lisa Brodie, Founder and Producer at  RedToast. The content and opinions in this post are those of the third-party author and AWS is not responsible for the content or accuracy of this post. RedToast started as a small production consulting company run by founder and producer Lisa Brodie. As it grew, the company saw how […]

New open standard aims to make render jobs portable across any rendering pipeline Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS) introduces Open Job Description (OpenJD), a new, flexible, open specification for defining render jobs to be portable between studios and render solutions. Render pipelines can vary widely depending upon project, technology, and administrative decisions. OpenJD is designed […]

Ice Tilt helps crack the code on how action on the ice translates to momentum shifts within the game While traditional stats like goals scored and save percentage are straightforward to track, more nuanced aspects of a hockey game have been deemed immeasurable – until now. For the first time ever, the National Hockey League […]