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AWS Elemental MediaPackage

Getting Started with AWS Elemental MediaPackage

Introducing AWS Elemental MediaPackage

Get started in 5 steps

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Step 1: Set up and log into your AWS account

Log into the AWS Management Console and set up your account.

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Step 2: Set up IAM permissions

Create an Identity and Access Management (IAM) role to assume.

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Step 3: Create a live channel or VOD package group and endpoints

For live content, set up and name your channel and associated endpoints.
For VOD content, create a VOD packaging group and packaging configurations.

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Step 4: Ingest content

For live content, use AWS Elemental MediaLive or another encoder to send video to your channel.
For VOD content, ingest assets from Amazon S3

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Step 5: Distribute live or VOD content

Configure an endpoint for distribution using a CDN such as Amazon CloudFront .

Pre-built solutions

Live Streaming with AWS

AWS provides a live streaming solution that combines AWS Elemental MediaLive and AWS Elemental MediaPackage with Amazon CloudFront to build a highly resilient and scalable architecture that delivers your live content worldwide.

Media Services Application Mapper

AWS offers a solution that displays the logical connections between media services, visualizes error messages and counts, and produces a list of confidence-ranked root causes for problematic workflows. 

Live Streaming with Automated Multi-Language Subtitling

AWS provides a real-time subtitling solution for live streaming video content that combines Amazon Transcribe, Amazon Translate, and AWS Lambda to build a serverless architecture that automatically generates multi-language subtitles for your live streaming videos.

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