Category: AWS CloudFormation

If you’re a producer looking to use HAQM Web Services (AWS) Deadline Cloud Budget Manager to track spend and usage for your render farm, then this blog is for you. AWS Deadline Cloud is a fully managed service that streamlines render management for teams creating computer-generated 2D/3D graphics and visual effects for films, TV shows, […]

As live cloud production (LCP) workloads gain more momentum, customers want to deploy, integrate, and scale their systems more easily while gaining workflow observability. This includes gaining insights into the infrastructure, exposing meaningful application metrics, and monitoring their media assets in the cloud with comparable operational familiarity to their on-premises deployments. To help partners and […]

This blog was co-written by Ing. Philipp Neuhofer MSc., Senior Domain Architect at Sportradar. Operating within the fast-growing over-the-top (OTT) services industry, Sportradar Group AG, a leading global sports technology company, has to keep pace with the industry’s high demands. Since Sportradar’s OTT service launched in 2016, there has seen rapid growth in demand for […]

In April 2022, AWS introduced the Live Cloud Production Initiative (formerly known as the Virtual Live Remote Production Initiative) to bridge technology gaps and expand our broadcast solution portfolio in collaboration with AWS partners. The aim is to deliver outcomes that benefit our current and future partners, customers, and the M&E community. Because of the […]

Today, HAQM Interactive Video Service (HAQM IVS) introduced HAQM IVS Chat, a new feature that enables developers to build interactive experiences designed to scale alongside HAQM IVS live streams. The team at HAQM IVS understands the importance of live chat as a core part of social video. Alongside Timed Metadata, HAQM IVS Chat is a foundational technology […]

Today, we introduce the HAQM Web Services (AWS) Reference Architecture for Virtual Production with Epic Games’ Unreal Engine. AWS customers, when challenged with building the right architecture for virtual production, can follow the best practices outlined in this post. This reference architecture is built with security, agility, and operational excellence in mind. AWS Reference Architecture […]

For modern audiences, it’s hard to remember a time when closed captioning wasn’t a standard menu option. Across the US and much of the world, accessibility to the essential service became a government mandate via legislation set in the 1990s. Since then, encoding and decoding technology for closed captioning has advanced, but its evolution has […]

This post is co-authored by Martin Whittaker – Technical Product Director, Evertz, Aekta Joshi – Sr. Cloud Infrastructure Architect – AWS ProServe M&E, and Mark Stephens, Partner Solutions Architect – AWS. The content and opinions in this post are those of the third-party author and AWS is not responsible for the content or accuracy of […]

In an earlier blog, we shared an AWS CloudFormation template that automated the deployment of a simple live streaming workflow using AWS Elemental MediaLive and AWS Elemental MediaStore. We took apart the template and analyzed the various sections of the template including the defined MediaLive and MediaStore resources. Since the blog’s publication, AWS Elemental MediaPackage […]

HAQM CloudFront alongside media services and serverless technologies from AWS make it easy to protect your video stream from unauthorized viewing. In part one of this blog post, you learned how to set up HAQM Cognito, create an API to generate cookies and protect your stream from unauthorized access. In this post, we will provide […]