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How 5 migrated to AWS Elemental MediaPackage v2

How 5 migrated to AWS Elemental MediaPackage v2

In this blog, learn how 5, part of Paramount, migrated from a dual-pipeline packaging architecture to AWS Elemental MediaPackage v2—consolidating infrastructure, eliminating manual failover, and expanding to new platforms across a 12-month collaborative journey with AWS. Discover the key technical enhancements delivered through the partnership, including DVB-DASH accessibility signaling, HLS manifest attributes, SCTE-35 flexibility, and SPEKEv2 DRM integration, and how early engagement with beta features accelerated 5’s modernization.

How Bedrock Streaming optimizes its AWS costs

How Bedrock Streaming optimizes its AWS costs

Learn how Bedrock Streaming hosts their solutions on Amazon Web Services (AWS) to serve major European broadcasters such as M6+, Videoland, and RTL+. With an AWS budget of several million dollars per year, each percentage point of optimization generates considerable savings.

EngineLab AI: Production-ready AI for studios and creators on AWS

EngineLab AI: Production-ready AI for studios and creators on AWS

Studios face a critical dilemma: AI tools promise to accelerate production workflows, but adopting them means confronting real concerns about security, intellectual property (IP) protection, and production stability. This post introduces a solution designed to resolve that trade-off. You can use AI tools such as ComfyUI—an open source node-based interface for AI content generation— to […]

How AWS powers Dramaze AI-enhanced streaming platform

How AWS powers Dramaze AI-enhanced streaming platform

Netmedias recently launched Dramaze.com, a groundbreaking freemium video-on-demand (VOD) streaming platform that brings short-form drama episodes to audiences across Asia and the Middle East. In an increasingly competitive streaming landscape where content localization and rapid scaling are critical for success, the company faced the challenge of delivering culturally relevant entertainment while maintaining operational efficiency and […]

Building intelligent media supply chain automation using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

Building intelligent media supply chain automation using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

The media industry is experiencing a fundamental shift in how content is processed, analyzed, and monetized. Recent breakthroughs in vision-based generative AI models have dramatically reduced both the cost and complexity of understanding video content at scale. By introducing these models into media supply chain workflows, organizations can reduce manual tagging and metadata generation costs […]

Asynchronous media processing on AWS: achieving broadcast quality at scale

Introduction The media and entertainment industry is undergoing a fundamental shift toward cloud-based live production workflows. Broadcasters want to realize new avenues of revenue by unlocking global workflows, produce more content with fewer resources, and drive viewer engagement at scale. This shift reduces costs through decreased crew travel and capital expenses for production hardware that […]

How AWS Built a Live AI-Powered Vertical Video Capability for Fox Sports with AWS Elemental Inference

For media companies, delivering highlights to social platforms quickly is a competitive advantage that directly drives viewership and monetization. With hundreds of live events across multiple leagues, many organizations lack resources for manual clipping and reformatting key moments for every game. The key moments still happen — but without a scalable way to capture and […]

TV 2 Norway scales to support 20,000 live sports streams with AWS

Live sports production and delivery have changed tremendously in the past decade, backed by cloud and streaming advancements making it more accessible to a broader range of organizations. TV 2 Norway has helped pioneer this incredible transformation, building a video platform on Amazon Web Services (AWS) that can support the live streaming of more than […]