Category Archives: Cloud

Release of cloud services to manage media contents

The beginning of this year 2013 is full of news in the transcoding cloud world. The two main platforms announced the release of their own solutions :

I made some posts to introduce Azure Media Services (part 1, part 2) available after May  2012. Here is a quick overview to compare those different services.

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AWS re:Invent 2012 – selection of interesting media tracks

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The Amazon Web Services re:Invent conference was done in last November at Las Vegas. There was some talks about different applications or different usage of the cloud solution provide by Amazon. I selected 3 of them which can be very interesting and talked about the media processing : the Netflix architecture, how to scale, etc…

Netflix’s Transcoding Transformation

Scalable Media Processing

Addressing Security in Media Workflows

Microsoft Azure Media Services – How to encode in the Azure Cloud – Part 2

After the first post which give an overview and explain how set-up a WAMS environment, I continue the discovery of WAMS World (sorry for the pun ;-)). In this post, we will see how we can transform a video from a input format to another format. It’s possible to generate multiple output format or to encrypt the video. But we will see it in a next posts.

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Organisation des Amazon Web Services

Cette semaine a eu lieu à Paris, l’AWS Summit, premier événement du genre organisé par Amazon en France. Il a reuni 2 à 300 personnes.

La journée était découpée en deux parties :

  • la matinée consacrée à une présentation générale ainsi que deux retours d’expérience (Visiware et Sodexo),
  • l’après-midi, plus technique, a permis de voir plus en détails certains des services proposés par Amazon au travers d’exemple d’architecture

Dans ce billet, je vais reprendre l’organisation des différents services proposés sur AWS. Ils sont au nombre de 30 disponibles sur 5 couches.

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