AWS Elemental Announces 5 Services to Streamline Video Workflows

亚马逊网络服务 (AWS) has announced five AWS Elemental media services that are designed to simplify video offering creation and save development time. 这五项服务是:

• MediaConvert: This formats, 压缩, and transcodes on-demand video so it can be streamed to any device.

• MediaLive: This does the same for live video, preparing it for TV or device playback.

• MediaPackage: Since viewers expect advanced functionality with streamed content, this enhances live streams with features like the ability to start viewing from the beginning.

• MediaStore: This service delivers video saved in high-performance storage systems that are optimized for media.

• MediaTailor: This lets publishers insert tailored advertisements in their video streams.

By offering these media services, AWS hopes to let traditional broadcasters spend more time innovating and less time creating and running basic infrastructure, 亚历克斯·邓拉普说, the company's general manager. He believes these services will create new opportunities for startups, 政府机构, 学校, 和跨国公司. The services integrate with AWS's offerings for content ingestion, 交付, 监控, and artificial intelligence.

One company looking at AWS and these five services is BT, which needs to stream to both traditional set-top boxes and its next-generation video headend infrastructure.

“Rationalizing our on-premises converged headend and extending that infrastructure widely across the BT enterprise requires an all-in shift to the cloud,伊恩·帕尔说, director of TV and broadband infrastructure for BT. “The new AWS Elemental media services are a natural extension of media workflows to the cloud. The ease of use of these AWS console-based services for end-to-end workflows will provide a level of flexibility and efficiency that will be a game-changer for our industry while providing a flexible option that can coexist with legacy on-premises live and on-demand infrastructures deployments.”