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From November 26 through November 30, over 50,000 attendees will spread out across seven venues on the Las Vegas Strip, which promises to make re:Invent 2018 the biggest re:Invent yet. For M&E attendees looking to get the most of their experience, you can follow the below steps: Register for re:Invent Learn more about event logistics You […]

Please join the AWS Media & Entertainment team at the AWS Summit Anaheim, Thursday, August 23 at Anaheim Convention Center North. The AWS Summit is a free-of-charge event designed to bring together the cloud computing community to connect, collaborate, and learn about AWS. Learn about building intelligent media workflows using AWS by attending the breakout […]

If you missed our M&E Cloud Symposium on July 31, 2018, session recordings are now available for viewing. PRESENTATIONS Opening: State of Media and What’s New from AWS Ben Masek (Global M&E BD Lead, AWS) Usman Shakeel (Global M&E Tech Lead, AWS) Chris Kuthan (M&E Solutions BD, AWS) AWS M&E subject matter experts present AWS’s […]

Guest post by Steeve Huin | Irdeto VP Strategic Partnerships 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. Part 1: CPIX, Your New Favorite 4-letter Word If you offer an OTT video service or are launching one, you […]

21st Century Fox extended its strategic relationship with AWS, selecting the world’s leading cloud provider for the vast majority of its workloads. Read the full release: AWS Chosen to Provide the Vast Majority of Cloud Infrastructure for 21st Century Fox | Business Wire You can learn more from 21st Century Fox CTO Paul Cheesbrough as […]

Presentations have now been published for download. Details and agenda below: Date: July 31 Time: 10:30am-5pm Location: Skirball Cultural Center (parking is limited. Recommend ride sharing) Registration now closed AGENDA Keynote: Enhancing the Viewer Experience with Machine Learning: GrayMeta and the Sky News “Royal Wedding: Who’s Who App” Josh Wiggins (Chief Commercial Officer, GrayMeta) With the […]

March 2025: The contents of this post are outdated. Please refer to this post for updated info: Migrating workflows from Amazon Elastic Transcoder to AWS Elemental MediaConvert Introduction At re:Invent 2017, AWS Elemental released five new media processing and delivery services. One of these services, AWS Elemental MediaConvert, shares functionality with another file-based video transcoding service on […]

September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. For news, sports, and other content owners with vast media archives, your content library is only as valuable as it is discoverable and searchable. For example, a sports producer looking to create a highlight reel around a specific player would […]

AWS Elemental MediaTailor is one of five AWS Media Services that launched during re:Invent 2017 and currently supports HTTP Live Streaming (HLS). It is a content personalization and monetization service that allows customers to implement stitched server-side ad insertion for streaming video while maintaining high quality of service. It uses dynamic transcoding to reduce storage requirements […]

Part 1: Defining and Measuring Latency (this post) Part 2: Recommended Optimizations for Encoding, Packaging, and CDN Delivery Part 3: Recommended Optimizations for Video Players Part 4: Reference Architectures and Tests Results Part 1: Defining and Measuring Latency Why is latency a problem for live video streaming? Whenever content delivery is time sensitive, whether it […]