AWS Elemental MediaConnect Documentation
AWS Elemental MediaConnect is a transport service for live video that enables broadcasters and content owners to build live video workflows and securely share live content with partners and customers.
Range of protocols supported
MediaConnect supports a range of protocols for video delivery. Using these protocols, MediaConnect enables a quality-of-service layer over IP network transport, which helps maintain streams through packet recovery, for live video contribution into the AWS Cloud.
Discover, visualize, and monitor live video with the workflow monitor
The workflow monitor for AWS Media Services and Amazon CloudFront is designed to discover, visualize, and monitor the resources associated with a live video stream, broadcast, or distribution. It is designed to display the relationships between resources in a graphical signal map, so you can see which resources are being used and how they are connected. You are enabled to create and apply metric alarm and notification templates to monitor your video and alert when issues arise.
Transmit compressed live video
With AWS Elemental MediaConnect Gateway, a cloud-connected software application, you can send video to and from your customer-managed multicast infrastructure. MediaConnect Gateway is designed to send multicast feeds from your network operations center as unicast, transporting the video to MediaConnect. Once there, you can replicate your video and send it to other AWS Regions, process it using AWS Media Services or other applications, share it with partners and affiliates, and deliver it to other on-premises MediaConnect Gateway installations.
Transport uncompressed and visually-lossless video
MediaConnect is designed to route video, audio, and metadata streams to provide uncompressed video to CDI-enabled applications. MediaConnect is also designed to receive and decode JPEG XS for contributing live video to applications in the AWS Cloud, and is designed to encode and send AWS CDI content as JPEG XS for return-feed applications back to on-premises infrastructure.
Built-in security features
MediaConnect helps you protect your content with features designed to let you limit access to trusted sources and encrypt your content. You can configure unique encryption keys for each destination as your video leaves MediaConnect.
Video sharing
You can create entitlements in MediaConnect to grant another account access to your content, so you can share your video streams with your customers and partners. You can also revoke access at any time. Accounts that are granted access can create their own video workflows using MediaConnect and other AWS services.
Monitor in real time
Using AWS monitoring services, such as Amazon CloudWatch, MediaConnect provides at-a-glance network performance metrics. Broadcast-standard alerts identify issues with transport streams, so you can adjust settings to maximize the quality of your video workflows. The service monitors stream performance and recovers automatically without operator intervention. You can also use Amazon EventBridge to build event-driven applications to respond to issues impacting your MediaConnect flows.
Use independently or with other AWS services
You can choose to use MediaConnect as a standalone service or integrate it with other AWS services to help prepare, process, and deliver your content. MediaConnect enables you to build your applications in the AWS Cloud.
Additional Information
For additional information about service controls, security features and functionalities, including, as applicable, information about storing, retrieving, modifying, restricting, and deleting data, please see https://docs.aws.amazon.com/index.html. This additional information does not form part of the Documentation for purposes of the AWS Customer Agreement available at http://aws.amazon.com/agreement, or other agreement between you and AWS governing your use of AWS’s services.