This Guidance uses CloudWatch and Amazon Managed Grafana to let you visualize and analyze operating system states, helping you quickly identify and remediate noncompliant components. You can then use Lambda to invoke actions based on events or alarms created by these monitoring components. Lambda lets you implement complex incident recovery logic for multiple systems, supporting operators by removing complex manual tasks. Additionally, this Guidance simplifies resource management by using AWS Systems Manager Patch Manager to automatically scan and patch Amazon EC2 instances.

This Guidance lets you scope down AWS Identity and Access Management(IAM) policies to the minimum permissions required for your Guidance to function properly, helping you limit unauthorized access to resources. Additionally, Secrets Manager stores all passwords required to access the bastion servers and application interfaces and helps you protect access to resources.

This Guidance uses two AZs, reducing the risk of AZ-level events impacting the output of your system. Additionally, AWS media services like MediaLive and MediaConnect support redundant primary and backup inputs, helping you build resilient video workflows. Lambda adds resiliency and reliability to your workflows through automatic scaling, retries, and high availability.

This Guidance uses CloudWatch to collect and visualize near real-time logs, metrics, and event data in automated dashboards, helping you streamline infrastructure and application maintenance. You can easily monitor various metrics that indicate optimal instance sizing for applications running on Amazon EC2. Additionally, you can use MediaConnect in conjunction with protocols, such as Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP) with forward error correction or Secure Reliable Transport (SRT), to deliver video at a high rate without packet loss.

This Guidance lets you take advantage of highly predictable baseline usage requirements and reduce your data transfer costs by making a long-term commitment through MediaConnect reserved output bandwidth. MediaConnect and MediaLive pricing is based on the output bitrate of the video feeds being processed, so you can optimize costs by tuning the video and encoding quality. MediaLive also supports reserved pricing for inputs, outputs, and add-on features. Additionally, AWS ISV products, such as broadcast routers and playout engines, run on Amazon EC2 instances and have stable 24/7 workloads. Savings Plans can help reduce the cost of 24/7 operations.

This Guidance uses managed services such as MediaConnect, Lambda, Amazon Managed Grafana, and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), minimizing workload requirements. MediaConnect scales based on demand so you don’t have to manage the underlying infrastructure. This reduces waste and energy consumption, ultimately helping you reduce your carbon footprint.