Category: AWS Elemental MediaPackage

Architecting a highly resilient solution for streaming premium live sports events, concerts, or news is critical to delight viewers with a high quality of experience (QoE). Deploying your video delivery workflow in two different Amazon Web Services (AWS) Regions is one way to provide extra redundancy. Region failover can mitigate impacts to workflows and even […]

Video platforms are increasingly using advertising for monetization, both in free-to-air and subscription-based services. The latter often now offer ad-supported pricing models, allowing users to access content at a discounted subscription price in exchange for viewing ads. Implementing ad insertion into a live streaming platform requires careful planning and integration with multiple systems (including video […]

When Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched AWS Elemental MediaStore during AWS re:Invent 2017, it served an important role in augmenting Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) to provide robust live video origination. Over the last six years, Amazon S3 has made functional and performance improvements that make it more suitable as a live video streaming […]

Pioneering live streaming tech from IMAX and AWS brings immersive sports events to giant screens globally without buffering, offering unparalleled viewing quality under 20mbps bitrate.

What is AV1 AV1 was developed as a state-of-the-art video codec for distribution over the web by the Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia), which consists of representation from several companies including Amazon, Apple, Netflix, Intel, and Nvidia, and others. It’s designed to succeed AVC, VP9, and HEVC as a next generation of natively supported video […]

The Amazon Web Services (AWS) for Media & Entertainment (M&E) Direct-to-Consumer & Streaming solution area provides services and solutions to help M&E companies prepare, deliver, personalize, and monetize their content across multiple platforms and channels and to provide rich customer experiences with live, linear, and on-demand content. At IBC Show 2024 September 13—16 in Amsterdam, […]

This blog was co-authored by Aravind Pamula, CEO – Futuralis and Nadeem Shaik, Solution Architect – Futuralis. In this blog post, we will focus on equipping our readers with the knowledge necessary to use various AWS Media Services to construct a comprehensive live video streaming workflow. The workflows encompass live video transport, transcoding, origination, and […]

Introduction Monitoring adaptive bitrate (ABR) media workloads requires attention to detail to provide a successful viewing experience. Keeping an eye on the health of the origin servers, confirming video and audio quality, and analyzing data reports from players are common monitoring tactics. However, issues such as manifest non-compliance, staleness, incorrect ad-break decorations, or missing data […]

Introduction Customers with live streaming video use cases often express a desire for flexibility in how they deploy live streaming services. Not all live channels are alike, and the ability to balance resiliency against cost is crucial. AWS Media Services from Amazon Web Services (AWS) are designed with redundancy in mind. Stateful services for video […]

In Part I of this blog post series, we introduced the Sustainability Pillar of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Well-Architected Framework through the lens of live and on-demand video encoding workflows powered by Media Services from AWS. We provided guidance to apply best practices from the Sustainability Pillar regarding the choice of AWS Region, use […]