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Case Study: Handling one million concurrent players with ease on AWS

Noor is the maker of Hadi, Turkey’s first live trivia mobile app that hosts live 15-minute trivia games multiple times per day. With as many as 400,000 game requests coming in at the same time, Noor needed more scalability than its current on-premises data center could offer. In 2020, Noor performed a lift and shift […]

Listen now: Top media and entertainment use cases and purpose-built AWS Solutions on Right Now at AWS

Change is underway in media and entertainment. Content producers want to create from any location, seamlessly collaborating across the world. The ability to reduce manual effort from content analysis workflows with AI / ML solutions is saving time and money, while also providing new revenue opportunities. Hear about the purpose-built AWS Services and Solutions customers […]

Registration reminder: AWS for Media & Entertainment Virtual Symposium

  With rapid changes and transformation occurring across the media and entertainment industry, companies are reinventing how they create content, optimize media supply chains, and compete for audience attention across platforms. Join AWS experts and customers for a virtual event exploring the latest services, solutions, and innovations for media and entertainment across content production; media supply […]

How Amazon IVS is helping build new online communities

Authored by Stu Grubbs, CEO & Co-founder of Lightstream. 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.     With in-person gatherings limited, people are finding comfort and connection through live video online. Making livestreaming more approachable […]

HPA 2021 streams ‘The Found Lederhosen’ content to multiscreen devices in 4K HDR 

The Found Lederhosen is a thought leadership content production project done with the Hollywood Professional Association (HPA), Amazon Web Services (AWS), creatives, subject matter experts, and other technology companies. The HPA Tech Retreat 2021, led by Joachim “JZ” Zell, focused on the most innovative approaches to creating, finishing, and distributing creative content for six short […]

Accedo and AWS deliver collegiate sports for Midco Sports Network

Authored by Fredrik Andersson, SVP Products at Accedo. 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. High school and collegiate sports have a huge following in the US as fans from across the country regularly watch their […]

ASU engages students with Amazon IVS

  From embracing and advancing sustainability initiatives to collaborating with NASA and incubating start-ups, Arizona State University (ASU) has established an expansive legacy that ripples across industries. Ranked the most innovative university by U.S. News & World Report for six consecutive years, ASU has earned its reputation as a multidisciplinary leader, in part, due to […]

Introducing new and improved AWS Elemental Statmux appliance and software for statistical multiplexing

In early 2021, AWS relaunched statistical multiplexing (statmux) hardware and software for on-premises applications. The new AWS Elemental Statmux incorporates the latest statmux features that were previously available in AWS Elemental MediaLive and adds additional features for the on-premises environment. Statmux is a technology used to efficiently combine (or multiplex) multiple encoded video channels (or […]

Case Study: RSI Affordably modernizes audio and video content management on AWS

  Radiotelevisione svizzera (RSI), a Swiss public broadcaster, needed to modernize its infrastructure. Its systems were built specifically for broadcast television, and were not able to adapt to the rapidly evolving media industry – particularly streaming content. Claranet, an AWS Premier Consulting Partner, developed a prototype in just 3 weeks, and a backend architecture to […]

Canapii takes virtual event engagement to the next level with help from AWS

For virtual and hybrid event technology developer Canapii, necessity truly proved the mother of invention. As the global pandemic upended the events industry, organizers were forced to pivot quickly to a virtual format. Even though digital event platforms were gaining popularity within the industry before the pandemic, going fully virtual introduced new challenges, especially with […]