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Tag: Amazon CloudFront
How to set up a simple video-on-demand service on AWS with TrackIt
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. The production of new video content driven by ubiquitous and relatively high-quality acquisition devices (mobile phones, action cameras, etc.), along with the accelerating re-use of old libraries, has seen […]
Enhanced origin failover using Amazon CloudFront and AWS Lambda@Edge
Recently, an AWS customer serviced more than 10 billion API calls per day at peak. They needed a failover option for brown-outs and other origin failures. They served these API calls through Amazon CloudFront, a content delivery network (CDN) that securely delivers static and dynamic web content with low latency and high transfer speeds using […]
Animation Research uses AWS to virtualize remote sports production
AWS also helps ARL’s Virtual Eye production arm to reduce its carbon footprint while delivering high-profile sports events to fans around the world Virtual Eye is the sports division of New Zealand-based Animation Research, LTD, which is one of Australasia’s leading 3D computer graphics production houses. For more than 25 years, Emmy® Award-winning Virtual Eye […]
Germany’s DFL taps AWS Media Services for new live streaming platform
The DFL Deutsche Fußball Liga (DFL), which is the governing body of the Bundesliga, is responsible for the organization and marketing of professional football in Germany. The Bundesliga, the soccer league with the best goals-per-game rate among Europe’s top five football leagues, is using AWS Media Services to power its new live streaming service. Using […]
Solving OTT workflow challenges with AWS
Authored by Tom Schaeffer, Founder, President & CEO of Float Left Interactive. 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. This post discusses the history and evolution of over-the-top (OTT) streaming and outlines how my company, Float […]
[Updated 3/15/2021] ZEE5 inserts millions of ads in live and VOD content using AWS
This post is co-authored by Girish Nair, SA, Media & Entertainment at Amazon Web Services and Vivek Yadav – Senior CDN Engineer at ZEE5 ZEE Entertainment is among the largest producers and aggregators of Hindi programming in the world, with an extensive library housing over 260k+ hours of television content with more than a billion […]
Protecting your video stream with Amazon CloudFront and serverless technologies – Part 2
Amazon CloudFront alongside media services and serverless technologies from AWS make it easy to protect your video stream from unauthorized viewing. In part one of this blog post, you learned how to set up Amazon Cognito, create an API to generate cookies and protect your stream from unauthorized access. In this post, we will provide […]
[Updated 1/4/2021]: Protecting your video stream with Amazon CloudFront and serverless technologies – Part 1
Amazon CloudFront alongside media services and serverless technologies from AWS make it easy to protect your video stream from unauthorized viewing. Whether it’s to ensure audiences have the right subscription to view the content, or that sensitive information can only be seen by permissioned viewers, there are many reasons content providers need to secure their […]
Introducing AWS Amplify Video on Demand
Today, we’re excited to bring you a new video-on-demand (VOD) resource type to AWS Amplify that allows you to easily store, manage, and serve file-based video content from AWS within minutes through the Amplify Command Line Interface (CLI). In this blog post, we explore how you can use Amplify Video to incorporate file-based video streaming into […]
Live video production using vMix on Amazon EC2
Live video is a popular and effective mechanism for businesses to stay in contact with their customers and stakeholders. As business constraints continue to evolve and content producers are challenged to produce live content outside the studio, including from their own home, live video production solutions from AWS can help businesses across industries adapt quickly. […]