Run low-latency broadcast workloads with the most agility, elasticity, scalability, and reliability of any cloud
Broadcasters run more television channel ingest, processing, creation, and distribution workloads on AWS than anywhere else. Customers including FOX, ViacomCBS, and Discovery pioneer the future of broadcasting using an unmatched portfolio of purpose-built AWS services and appliances, along with partner solutions. Using AWS Elemental MediaConnect, a high-quality transport service for live video, and AWS Elemental Live, Conductor Live, and Statmux software and hardware for encoding live outputs, customers can position on-premises workloads where they are needed, building broadcast workflows on AWS for live events and 24/7 channels.
Benefits
Broadcast solutions and services
AWS services
Customer stories
FOX modernizes and innovates using AWS
FOX produces and distributes content through some of the world’s leading brands, including FOX News, FOX Sports, and FOX Television Stations, engaging with millions of viewers through its broadcast and OTT platforms. FOX Corporation uses AWS to create new ways of producing and delivering live events.
Sky Italia delivers real-time sports updates, optimizes data propagation 15x on AWS
Sky Italia migrated to AWS to rebuild its previous architecture from the ground up, increasing its horizontal scalability and elasticity during both peak and off-peak times.
AWS and ViacomCBS expand strategic agreement to transform content creation and delivery
ViacomCBS will migrate operations for its entire broadcast footprint, which spans 425 linear television channels and 40 global data and media centers, to the world’s leading cloud.
KBS flexibly scales in response to traffic increases
Korean Broadcasting System (KBS) migrated about 300 servers from a collocation data center to AWS, gaining the flexibility to scale resources on days major sporting events are held.
ITV saves $150,000 in compute costs by using Amazon EKS on Amazon EC2 Spot Instances
Learn how ITV, the largest commercial television network in the United Kingdom, offered its high-quality services to a much larger volume of end users while optimizing costs.
AWS Partners for Broadcast
Discover purpose-built health solutions and services from an extensive network of industry-leading AWS Partners who have demonstrated technical expertise and customer success in building solutions on AWS.
“Imagine Aviator is optimized on AWS and uniquely designed so our customers can leverage the full potential of the cloud to easily plan, make and monetize premium-quality content from a single, unified platform.”
- Steve Reynolds, President, Imagine Communications
“Evertz’ Mediator-X and Overture solutions for Media Asset Management, Content Supply Chain, and Linear playout applications running on AWS deliver the scalability, flexibility and operational efficiency demanded by today’s leading broadcasters.”
- Dan Turow, Vice President of File Based Solutions, Evertz
Amagi brings simplicity, advanced automation, and transparency to the entire broadcast operation, be it for traditional TV or next-gen multiscreen platforms.
EVS helps broadcasters and media companies around the world create compelling live storytelling in the most reliable, efficient, and creative way.
As a technology leader and solutions provider, Lumen delivers hybrid networking, cloud connectivity, and security solutions globally.
Ross powers video productions for billions of global viewers daily with the industry’s widest range of smart production solutions.
Vizrt offers solutions that are in regular use by major global media producers using AWS services by harnessing the combined power of software, computing, and networks.
Consulting partners
AWS Consulting Partners help customers build customized solutions to meet their unique needs.
AWS Marketplace
Media and entertainment solutions from AWS Partners are also available on AWS Marketplace, a digital catalog of third-party software, services, and data that makes it easy to find, buy, deploy, and manage software on AWS.
Resources
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Transform your broadcast technology on the cloud
In this eBook, examine how the cloud is transforming broadcast. Discover solutions from AWS and AWS Partners designed to enhance and improve broadcast workflows, and read how broadcast customers are succeeding by modernizing on the cloud.
We interrupt this broadcast…to move to the cloud
From playout to primary distribution, statistical multiplexing to monitoring, discover how reliable distribution of 24x7 live video originating in AWS is, and see how you can take advantage of the flexibility, agility, and scale of the the cloud.
FOX and uncompressed live sports in the cloud
FOX continues to innovate the way live television is created and distributed in the cloud. In this video, FOX dives into how it uses AWS Media Services to create adaptable, elastic, and efficient workflows sharing lessons learned as they pioneer moving the television technology industry forward using AWS.
Dorna’s MotoGP accelerates remote content production on AWS and Grabyo
With Grabyo, a cloud-based system for live and real-time video production powered by AWS, Dorna has grown its global MotoGP audience, bringing fans more ways to enjoy race-day action and greater access to the riders, teams, and sponsors that drive the sport of motorcycle racing.