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New digital training available for AWS Elemental Live and AWS Elemental Conductor

Want to learn how to get the most out of your AWS Elemental Live or AWS Elemental Conductor on-premises appliances? AWS Training and Certification recently launched three free, on-demand courses to help you learn how to operate and optimize your video workflows.

AWS Elemental Live training

AWS Elemental Live provides real-time video and audio encoding for linear TV broadcast and live streaming to new media platforms. Interested in learning how to make the most of AWS Elemental Live? Begin with AWS Elemental Live Foundations to start building your skills, followed by AWS Elemental Live Advanced to develop deeper expertise.

AWS Elemental Live Foundations is a 60-minute digital course that provides an overview of the fundamental functions of AWS Elemental Live, focusing on key operational aspects of a live video event. In this course, engage with key elements of the user interface, view video demonstrations of how to create simple live events, and learn how to monitor and troubleshoot live streams.

Building on the foundations course, AWS Elemental Live Advanced goes deeper into some of the advanced features of AWS Elemental Live. In this 90-minute course, learn to master a wide variety of advanced topics including dynamic input switching, audio tracks mapping, captions, video quality tuning best practices, ad-insertion workflows, and digital rights management (DRM).

AWS Elemental Conductor training

AWS Elemental Conductor allows you to easily manage individual or large encoder clusters. It offers high availability, secure administration, and comprehensive monitoring of video encoding and delivery tasks through an easy-to-use, web-based user interface.

AWS Elemental Conductor is a 90-minute digital course that describes how to use Conductor to deliver operational efficiencies by reducing the complexity of cluster management. In this course, you learn how to manage bulk operations to start, stop, and modify groups of channels, automate channel operations, and configure resiliency and redundancy to protect against single points of failure.

Getting Started

AWS Training and Certification offers over 25 media services courses and hands-on labs, plus three role-based learning paths designed for business decision makers, media engineers, and media operators. Explore training paths and begin learning today.