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Category: Lambda@Edge
Creating dynamic MediaPackage origin mappings using Amazon CloudFront and AWS Lambda@Edge
Customers taking advantage of the elastic, on demand nature of the AWS Media Services have the ability to spin up and tear down live streaming pipelines on demand and on an event by event basis. Entire media pipelines can be deployed from a template, for a single live event. Once the event is complete the […]
Enable Microsoft Smooth Streaming to resource-constrained devices using Lambda@Edge and AWS Elemental MediaPackage
AWS Elemental MediaPackage is a highly scalable video origination and just-in-time packaging service. Using either a live HLS input from an encoder such as AWS Elemental MediaLive or media files from Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), the service packages video content with optional encryption to HLS, DASH-ISO, CMAF and Microsoft Smooth (MSS) formats. The majority […]
[Updated 3/15/2021] ZEE5 inserts millions of ads in live and VOD content using AWS
This post is co-authored by Girish Nair, SA, Media & Entertainment at Amazon Web Services and Vivek Yadav – Senior CDN Engineer at ZEE5 ZEE Entertainment is among the largest producers and aggregators of Hindi programming in the world, with an extensive library housing over 260k+ hours of television content with more than a billion […]
How to filter live streaming renditions by device type at the Edge
Filtering Streaming Renditions by Device Type with AWS Elemental MediaPackage, Amazon CloudFront, and Amazon Lambda@Edge Introduction When customers choose their bitrate ladder for adaptive bit rate (ABR) streaming video, they often discover that there is not always a “one size fits all” set of renditions that will work for all of their client devices. For […]
New from the networking & content delivery blog: Building a serverless subscription service using Lambda@Edge
This post from the Networking & Content Delivery blog explains how to use Lambda@Edge to implement a serverless-based subscription service for your website. A subscription service enables you to control your user’s journey by using an access model that lets you add metering, restrict users to particular section or article, include micropayments, and set up a […]