The 2021 Streaming Media Readers’ Choice Award Winners

The results of this year’s Streaming Media Readers’ Choice Awards brought good news for services and solutions for media and entertainment from AWS. With 200 nominees in 22 categories and 14,600 votes cast, the results are in:

• Winner, Cloud Encoding/Transcoding Services: AWS Elemental MediaLive
• Winner, Content Delivery Network: Amazon CloudFront
• Winner, DRM/Content Protection: AWS Elemental MediaPackage
• Winner, Server-Side Ad Insertion (SSAI) Solution: AWS Elemental MediaTailor
• Runner-up, Live Streaming Service: Amazon IVS
• Runner-up: On-Prem Encoding/Transcoding Solution: AWS Elemental Live

This slate includes services from AWS that comprise an end-to-end live media workflow, from cloud-based encoding and packaging, to monetization and content distribution. To learn more about building a broadcast-quality live streaming platform on AWS and other real-world use cases for media and entertainment, visit the AWS for M&E demo showcase.