AWS Media Services Resources

As video quality, accessibility and utility skyrockets, how video providers create and deliver professional-grade video services changes dramatically. This e-book digs into the details behind the causes and effects of this shift. Learn about the benefits of moving video operations to the cloud, the pros and cons of conventional approaches, and tips for adapting to coming changes.

From playout to primary distribution, statistical multiplexing to monitoring, discover how reliable distribution of 24x7 live video originating in AWS is in production today, and see how you can take advantage of the flexibility, agility, and scale of the AWS cloud.

Learn about the design considerations, understand how to evaluate the trade-offs, and be confident in picking the right video origination service.  

In this 3 part webcast series, media and entertainment experts walk you through the questions, different approaches, important considerations, and the best proactive practices for securing your workflows so that the entire process is easy to implement, monitor, and manage.

Learn how creative studios can take advantage of the cloud to help with remote work, scale production pipelines, increase artist productivity, and reduce wall clock time to deliver projects. This five part series features presentations from Untold Studios, Hive VFX, Citesite, and a discussion hosted by postPerspective with NVIDIA, Tangent Studio, and AWS.

Join AWS media tech experts and customers for an online event exploring the latest media and entertainment innovations and solutions for content production, broadcast, OTT, and data science and machine learning. The 5-week series airs every Thursday from October 1 to October 29.

New video technologies make it possible for anyone to set up and run a live streaming video event. In this webcast, experts discuss the latest tools, tips, and considerations that organizations operating in any industry need to know to turn live event streaming concepts into pain-free productions.

This white paper offers guidance for broadcasters and media organizations transitioning to IP, and demystifies common misconceptions with the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) 2110 standards and associated IP technologies. It explains why organizations transition from Serial Digital Interface (SDI) to IP workflows and covers important topics related to workflow design, synchronization, clocking, and uncompressed contribution using AWS Elemental Live.

For many viewers, the allure of live streamed events provides the motivation to subscribe and renew. But for many content providers, guaranteeing live streaming success is the most challenging part of media operations.  Learn what you need to know to get live streaming right.

With minimal effort, companies can use existing, sophisticated solutions to make their corporate streaming video workflows much more efficient, and without additional time, expense, and expertise.

Is server-side ad insertion (SSAI) better than client-side ad insertion (CSAI)? How do they differ? Which works best for OTT content monetization? How does the cloud enable more scalable solutions? This white paper answers these questions and more.

For a long time, OTT video streams over the internet have been lagging behind broadcast TV and social media by 15-30 seconds if not more. It's been a frustrating problem for both viewers and content providers. New knowledge, technologies, and practices are making long-standing video latency problems for live streaming a thing of the past.

Video delivery over the internet or any other channel is more than a matter of getting content from provider to viewer. To your audience, it's all about the quality of the viewing experience. If your video quality standards aren't high, your audience immediately knows and may go elsewhere to find it.