AWS Elemental MediaLive

Benefits

Simple deployment and management

AWS Elemental MediaLive automates the provisioning and management of all the infrastructure used for video encoding, letting you deploy a simple live channel in minutes. The service transparently provisions resources and manages all the scaling, failover, monitoring, and reporting needed to power a live video stream. This lets you focus on your live content, not your encoding infrastructure. You can also use AWS Elemental Link, an on-premises device that makes it easy to connect your live video source to MediaLive.

Broadcast-grade capabilities

AWS Elemental MediaLive makes it easy for anyone to produce broadcast-quality live streaming video. The service includes support for advanced capabilities such as statistical multiplexing, ad marker support, audio features including audio normalization and Dolby audio, and multiple caption standards. MediaLive works natively with AWS Elemental MediaConnect, providing secure and reliable transport of video to use as inputs to live channels.

Highly available

AWS Elemental MediaLive provides built-in reliability and resiliency. The service transparently manages resources across multiple Availability Zones, and automatically monitors their health, so that any potential issues are detected and resolved without disrupting live channels. With AWS Elemental MediaLive, you can exceed the reliability of infrastructure typically used for broadcast workloads with a straightforward pay-as-you-go model based on the hours of content processed.

Increased efficiency and reduced cost

With AWS Elemental MediaLive, you only pay for the service as you use it, with no upfront investment in encoding infrastructure and no operational overhead devoted to managing physical resources. Pricing for AWS Elemental MediaLive uses a straightforward model based on the hours of content processed and delivered.

AWS Elemental MediaLive Features

AWS Elemental MediaLive is a video processing service that enables video providers to encode high-quality live video streams for delivery to broadcast televisions and multiscreen devices. Used as a standalone service or integrated with other AWS Media Services, AWS Elemental MediaLive lets you build flexible 24x7 live video workflows or create event-based live streams with full control over encoding parameters.

Key features

Comprehensive Video Standards Support

AWS Elemental MediaLive supports a broad range of video industry standards used to input, output, and archive live video. It includes support for the latest codecs - the compression standards used for video, like h.264/AVC and h.265/HEVC - and media communication protocols - the standards used to send video over the internet, like Real Time Protocol (RTP), HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) or Real-Time Streaming Protocol (RTMP). You can read about all the standards AWS Elemental MediaLive supports in our documentation.

Broadcast Capabilities for Live Video Streams

AWS Elemental MediaLive uses technology from AWS Elemental that has been proven over many years by leading broadcast and internet video providers. AWS Elemental MediaLive supports broadcast features like ad markers, closed captions, multiple language audio tracks, audio descriptors, and FCC-mandated loudness correction. MediaLive also works natively with AWS Elemental MediaConnect, providing secure and reliable transport of video to use as inputs to live channels.

Statistical Multiplexing (Statmux)

Statistical Multiplexing (Statmux) lets you process and originate live content and share it with distribution partners for delivery over satellite, cable, or terrestrial networks. Launch broadcast distribution workloads quickly, optimize video quality and available network bandwidth, and meet resiliency goals with built-in high availability.

Automated Resource Provisioning

AWS Elemental MediaLive manages the encoding resources needed to deliver high-availability live video streams, so you can focus on your content, not your encoding infrastructure. It automatically deploys encoding resources and manages scaling, healing, resiliency failover, monitoring, and reporting. With a few clicks in the AWS Elemental MediaLive management console, you can launch fully configured live video channels in minutes.

Automated High Availability

Each live video channel you create with AWS Elemental MediaLive runs on redundant infrastructure distributed across physically separated Availability Zones. The service monitors encoding resources for health and automatically replaces any degraded components without disrupting your channels. Resources scale elastically with demand, assuring a consistent service for your viewers.

Flexible Workflows

AWS Elemental MediaLive lets you build flexible 24x7 linear workflows or event-based live streams. The service makes it simple to output a mix of live video streams at different resolutions and bitrates to meet the requirements of the devices in the hands of your viewers.

Use Independently or with other AWS Media Services

As one of the AWS Media Services, you can choose to use AWS Elemental MediaLive as a standalone service or integrate it with AWS services for video transport, video-on-demand (VOD) processing, just-in-time packaging, ad personalization and monetization, or media-optimized storage. A typical integration would be to tie AWS Elemental MediaLive to our video transport, packaging and server-side ad insertion services for the core video workflow. Additionally, other AWS services, such as the Amazon CloudFront CDN, offer seamless interoperability with AWS Elemental Media Services.