AWS for M&E Blog

Category: Storage

Introducing Autodesk Flame on AWS

Marking a major milestone for an application celebrating it’s 30th anniversary that was once only available on dedicated hardware, Autodesk has enabled Flame 2023 to run on HAQM Web Services (AWS). Autodesk ® Flame ® provides high-end 3D visual effects (VFX), finishing and color grading software used across advertising, and episodic and feature film VFX […]

Alt text: New checksum options include SHA-256, SHA-1, CRC32 and CRC32C

Building scalable checksums

Customers in the media and entertainment industry interact with digital assets in various formats. Common assets include digital camera negatives, film scans, post-production renders, and more, all of which are business-critical. As assets move from one step to the next in a workflow, customers want to make sure the files are not altered by network […]

Democratize documentation summarization with Hugging Face on HAQM SageMaker

Introduction As the media and entertainment (M&E) industry evolves, companies within the space are finding more opportunities to use artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to deliver a better customer experience. Customer acquisition, retention, and engagement are key areas where AI/ML technologies are poised to deliver significant value. With increasingly complex content consumption patterns, […]

Media movement for content production workloads

Authored by Greg Holick, Vice President of Product at Cloudsoda.io. 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 this post. The media and entertainment content production process is highly orchestrated. It encompasses establishing the creative vision, scouting shoot locations, […]

Virtual production reference architecture with Epic Games’ Unreal Engine

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 […]

A view of the Aggregated AI/ML detections on the Media2Cloud Stats page.

Media intelligence just got smarter with Media2Cloud 3.0

We are happy to announce the official release of Media2Cloud 3.0. This release helps AWS customers simplify and expedite their media migration workflow into AWS. It provides a framework to implement artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) to create frame-level descriptive metadata about content. This new version of Media2Cloud still includes the features that customers have […]

Part 2: SCTE 35 signal conditioning in AWS Elemental Live

This is the second post in a two-part series. Read the first post here. It is quite common for AWS Elemental Live, which lets users encode live video on premises for events and 24/7 streams, to be used to deliver live streams into HAQM Web Services (AWS) for over-the-top (OTT) workflows and to distribute a […]

Architecture diagram with live and on-demand workflows feeding into HAQM CloudFront

Migrating Microsoft Smooth Streaming to HAQM CloudFront for streaming video

Migrating Microsoft Smooth Streaming to HAQM CloudFront—a content delivery network (CDN) service built for high performance, security, and developer convenience—for video on demand (VOD) and live streaming is a conversation that we have had with many of our customers. During the past few years, several CDN providers have begun to remove support for Smooth Streaming. […]

How HAQM S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval can simplify your content library supply chain

Media organizations around the world use HAQM Simple Storage Service (HAQM S3) to store extensive content libraries because it allows them to scale resources to meet fluctuating needs and optimize storage cost. At re:Invent 2021, AWS launched the HAQM S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval archive storage class that delivers the lowest cost storage for long-lived, rarely […]

re:Invent 2021 releases and launches for M&E workloads

With more than 50 launches and announcements of new services and major features during AWS re:Invent 2021, the following is a tailored list of those most relevant for media and entertainment (M&E) workloads. Watch the full Adam Selipsky Keynote here for even more announcements and information. AWS Private 5G for on-set connectivity AWS Private 5G is […]