AWS Elemental MediaLive Resources

This e-book for media and entertainment (M&E) leaders, business development managers, and technology teams, shows how to maximize revenue and minimize costs when launching Free Ad-Supported TV (FAST) channels using solutions from Amazon Web Services (AWS) and AWS Partners

In this eBook, examine how the cloud is transforming broadcast. Discover solutions from Amazon Web Services (AWS) and AWS Partners designed to enhance and improve the broadcast workflow, and read how real customers in the broadcast industry are succeeding by modernizing on the cloud.

The technology infrastructure you choose influences the degree of success you achieve in the increasingly competitive OTT video market. This e-book discusses the accelerating growth in OTT markets, compares hardware- and cloud-based approaches to creating live and on-demand OTT video workflows, and gives specific examples of companies that use cloud-based OTT video services.

Nurturing digital relationships with fans means delivering “right-now” OTT live sports offerings that meet broadcast-grade. The cloud is the great equalizer, allowing anyone to deliver personalized experiences and cutting-edge apps for the superfan. This e-book explains how cloud media services and solutions can help you reduce video production costs, grow revenue, and tailor offerings to your specific audiences.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has designed purpose-built solutions to help you innovate and accelerate your media workflows. Read how existing AWS customers are using solutions across their media value chain, from content production through to asset management and distribution, and get ideas for your own creative studio.

As video quality, accessibility and utility skyrockets, how video providers create and deliver professional-grade video services changes dramatically. This e-book digs into the details behind the causes and effects of this shift. Learn about the benefits of moving video operations to the cloud, the pros and cons of conventional approaches, and tips for adapting to coming changes.

New video technologies make it possible for anyone to set up and run a live streaming video event. In this webcast, experts discuss the latest tools, tips, and considerations that organizations operating in any industry need to know to turn live event streaming concepts into pain-free productions.

Behind The Stream is an online show designed for sports media broadcasters, athletic teams, and digital rights holders, brought to you by AWS video experts. Tune in to get insights, insider tips, and inspiration about how to use AWS media solutions for your next live streaming event.

Launching a cloud-based DVR service is seemingly complex and time-consuming, but it is possible to launch a complete, professional cloud-based solution quickly and cost-effectively. Cloud-based DVR solutions can be deployed with traditional on-premises cable or IPTV headends, or with video workloads running entirely on AWS. Learn more from this AWS webinar for senior decision-makers.

Governments, public agencies, educational institutions, and other non-media organizations can easily and cost-effectively launch a live streaming solution with the ability to record video for offline viewing. Learn more from this technical AWS webinar.

A new IDC report shows AWS remains the no. 1 cloud for Windows workloads. To accelerate your migration process, AWS has a special Windows Jumpstart Migration Assessment for M&E customers. Experts from AWS and Flexera explain the details in this webcast.

This webcast covers the solutions that minimize the dangers of live streaming, and make dealing with fast-changing live video challenges much easier on your operations, resources, budget, and you.

This white paper offers guidance for broadcasters and media organizations transitioning to IP, and demystifies common misconceptions with the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) 2110 standards and associated IP technologies. It explains why organizations transition from Serial Digital Interface (SDI) to IP workflows and covers important topics related to workflow design, synchronization, clocking, and uncompressed contribution using AWS Elemental Live.

For a long time, OTT video streams over the internet have been lagging behind broadcast TV and social media by 15-30 seconds if not more. It's been a frustrating problem for both viewers and content providers. New knowledge, technologies, and practices are making long-standing video latency problems for live streaming a thing of the past.

Video delivery over the internet or any other channel is more than a matter of getting content from provider to viewer. To your audience, it's all about the quality of the viewing experience. If your video quality standards aren't high, your audience immediately knows and may go elsewhere to find it.

AWS Media Services are designed to give you an easy path to cloud-based video processing and delivery. Virtually limitless capacity, performance to scale, the latest proven video standards, formats and protocols – and much more. Understand the benefits and learn how to deploy the services for discrete workloads or complete, end-to-end video workflows.

For broadcasters using traditional video infrastructure, the cost and complexity of maintaining video operations is a necessary evil. But to advocate for a change for the better, broadcasters need sound business reasons. This paper explains how cloud technologies take high costs and complexity off the table, and create mutually beneficial provider and customer relationships.