AWS Media Blog

Guest post by Al Rundle (21st Century Fox, V.P. Media Applications & Engineering) and Jaime Valenzuela (21st Century Fox, Director of Software Development) Introduction: At 83 years, 20th Century Fox is one of the oldest movie and television studios.  With those 83 years comes a long history of leading and participating in Media and Entertainment […]

The media landscape is transforming the way content is created and consumed. Viewers have come to expect more content options, personalized experiences, and access anywhere, anytime, on any device. You are invited to attend AWS Insights Online, a media and entertainment focused conference that addresses business and technical challenges for video creation, asset management, and […]

By Arnaud Elnecave, VP Marketing, Dalet In today’s fast-paced and ultra competitive media landscape, the ability to respond rapidly to evolving consumer demands and grasp opportunities for new revenue forms as they arise is key to sustainable success. For most organizations, this mandate for greater business agility drives a direct need for a deep transformation […]

As organizations make their transition to the AWS cloud, they often find themselves asking the question “what’s in that AWS S3 bucket?”  In an environment where leadership teams expect fast answers from IT, how do you dissect an S3 bucket with ten terabytes and hundreds of thousands of audio files or documents without a way […]

Mark Stephens, Solutions Architect for AWS, and Baskar Subramanian, Co-Founder of Amagi, will host a webinar on October 24th, to explain how live orchestration on cloud can simplify live events management by making the process centralized, while spinning up cloud infrastructure only for the duration of the event. Recommended audience: C-Level executives, live sports content […]

AWS Media Services are a group of managed services that make it easy to build reliable, broadcast-quality video workflows in the Cloud. These services create media suitable for streaming, both live and on-demand, and optimized for your viewers’ playback devices. In this post, I shall explain how you can deliver the content created with the […]

Guest post by Niraj Zaveri and Michael Chu, AWS Cloud Economics Live Nation is the world’s leading live entertainment company, they cover the action from stage to field, and touch many industries from technology, marketing, operations, hospitality, customer service, sales, film, advertising and beyond. Recently, Jake Burns, VP of Cloud Services at Live Nation sat […]

If you develop video applications, you probably need to create poster frames (a highlight image that is representative of a video) and thumbnail images (periodic frame grabs over the duration of the entire video) as a part of your workflow. Have you ever wondered how to create a poster frame for a specific frame in […]

Media and Entertainment (M&E) customers are using the cloud for a wide range of use cases including many aspects of content creation, post production, and large parts of the business-to-consumer camera-to-screen supply chain. As these core media workloads move to the cloud, it’s imperative to examine the security implications of a multi-tenant public cloud environment […]

If you’ll be at MESA HITS Fall on October 4th in LA, be sure to check out AWS’s session in Track 3 (Assets, Data, and Performance): How Cloud-based MAMs Enable the Live Coverage of the Future – The Fox Sports World Cup Coverage Case Study Despite the changes in the pipeline and screen audiences use […]