Amazon Web Services is enabling broadcasters and content owners to automate media supply chains, streamline content distribution, and cost effectively build direct to consumer streaming and OTT solutions across live, linear, non-linear, and on-demand (AVOD, SVOD) programming. AWS offers services for live and file-based content acquisition, media services for video processing, Amazon CloudFront for global content delivery, as well as core storage, security, big data, and analytics services.
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See How Star TV Scales Streaming Video to Millions of Mobile Viewers on AWS
Eliminate idle capacity and reduce capital investment needed to meet unforecastable spikes in content demand from anywhere, at any time, while only paying for the infrastructure during the time you use it.
Content demand is difficult to forecast, making it challenging to properly size your infrastructure. AWS Elemental media services enable you to seamlessly scale your infrastructure to meet spikes in demand without investing in idle capacity.
Avoid overspending on new projects and services by spinning up new development and test environments only when they are needed, and launching new offerings without having to invest in excess capacity.
"By using AWS, we managed to optimize our services over time, resulting in cost savings between 20-30%."
Kawaljit Singh Bedi-CTO, NDTV Convergence
"The biggest benefit I have seen from using AWS is the agility that it brings. We spent months originally trying to get our infrastructure sorted out, and we got that down to minutes"
Paul Clark-Technology Controller, Online, Pay, and Interactive
"Our success on AWS can be attributed to the scalability, elasticity, and global availability of AWS services."
Eva Tse, Director-Big Data Platform
Moving to AWS enables you to streamline the distribution broadcast content to affiliates and cable operators, deliver highly scalable video experiences to consumers around the globe, and optimize video for any device. Learn more »
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See how Cinegy leveraged the AWS Cloud to delvier a video playout solution for Blue Ant Media.
Broadcast and Distribution Solutions
AWS Broadcast and Distribution Solutions
Amazon EC2 P2 Instances are powerful, scalable instances that provide GPU-based parallel compute capabilities. For customers with graphics requirements, see G2 instances for more information.
AWS Elemental media services enable video providers to deliver live events, broadcast channels, and on-demand content with highly resilient and secure workflows.
Amazon CloudFront is a global content delivery network (CDN) service that delivers your live, linear and VOD content to new audiences and devices.
AWS enables content owners to deliver highly scalable OTT experiences for their customers. Media and entertainment companies are using AWS to extend their customer engagement by adding video content through branded OTT channels. Learn more »
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See you Netflix uses AWS cloud services to quickly deploy thousands of servers and terabytes of storage within minutes.
Over-the-Top Platform Solutions
AWS Over-the-Top Solutions
AWS offers highly reliable and secure cloud storage solutions for ingesting, storing and archiving video from source and compressed files.
AWS Elemental media services enable video providers to deliver premium streaming content to connected devices including phones, tablets, PCs, game consoles and set-top boxes.
Amazon CloudFront is a global content delivery network (CDN) service that scales and optimizes delivery of your live, linear and VOD content.
Broadcasters and content distributors are leveraging the AWS Cloud to streamline, automate, and optimize their digital supply chains, while reducing their investment in capital infrastructure. Learn more »
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Hear how SDVI uses AWS to deliver end-to-end media supply chain for major broadcast companies.
Media Supply Chain Solutions
Digital video, images and content stored in the the AWS Cloud can be easily searched and retrieved with AWS storage, database and search services. In addition, the AWS partner ecoystem provides a variety of solutions for Digital and Media Asset Management (DAM & MAM). Learn more »
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See how WGBH uses AWS cloud services with Sony Ci to power their master control product and enable public media companies to reduce production costs and seamlessly deliver content for viewers on any type of device.
Digital Asset Management Solutions
AWS Storage Services
Amazon S3 is easy to use object storage, with a simple web service interface to store and retrieve any amount of data from anywhere on the web. With Amazon S3, you pay only for the storage you actually use. There is no minimum fee and no setup cost.
Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) provides simple, scalable file storage for use with Amazon EC2 instances in the AWS Cloud. Amazon EFS is easy to use and offers a simple interface that allows you to create and configure file systems quickly and easily.
Amazon Glacier is a secure, durable, and extremely low-cost cloud storage service for data archiving and long-term backup. To keep costs low, Amazon Glacier is optimized for infrequently accessed data where a retrieval time of several hours is suitable.
AWS delivers highly scalable, secure and elastic cloud services for Big Data and Analytics to reduce IT costs and infrastructure compexities, while reducing the time to glean actionable insight into customers and content from streaming, batch and historical data. Learn more »
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Netflix is using AWS to deliver billions of hours of content monthly, and run its analytics platform for optimum performance.
AWS Big Data and Analytics Partners
AWS Big Data and Analytics Services
Amazon Kinesis is a platform for streaming data on AWS, offering powerful services to make it easy to load and analyze streaming data, and also providing the ability for you to real-time content analytics applications.
Amazon EMR simplifies big data processing, providing a managed Hadoop framework that makes it easy, fast, and cost-effective for you to distribute and process vast amounts of data across dynamically scalable Amazon EC2 instances.
Amazon QuickSight is a very fast, cloud-powered business intelligence (BI) service that makes it easy for all employees to build visualizations, perform ad-hoc analysis, and quickly get business insights from their data.
AWS Marketplace is an online software store that enables media and publishing companies to find, buy, and immediately start using popular business software and publishing applications running on the AWS cloud.
Learn more about AWS Marketplace media solutions »
The Amazon Partner Network (APN) includes partners who have achieved AWS Digital Media Competency by demonstrating AWS technical competence with supporting customer references. Working with these Competency Partners gives you access to innovative, cloud-based media solutions that have a proven track record of success in the media and publishing industries.
Learn more about Digital Media Competency partners solutions »
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