Video streaming workflows and AWS Cloud

Name: Video streaming workflows and AWS Cloud
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An Introduction to the Video Workloads in the Cloud

Created byAntoine Courtois

Last updated 11/2021

English

What you'll learn

History of video broadcasting
Understanding the different components in media supply chain
Broadcasting in a nutshell
Streaming workflows in general (Video on Demand and Live Streaming Workflows)
Introduction to AWS Media Services
Big Data and AI/ML Applications in a Video Streaming workflows

Course content

1 section • 8 lectures • 1h 9m total length

Introduction3:23
Introduction to the course.
Origin of Broadcast & Media11:50
In this session, you are going to learn more about the history of Broadcast Media and the latest development that happened in the industry.
Content Production8:20
In this session, we are covering the content production process and also how AWS services can help you to build a production workload in the cloud.

References
Slide Cloud Services:
https://aws.amazon.com/media/content-production/
Case Studies:
https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/untold-studios-case-study/
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/media/weta-digital-goes-all-in-on-aws/
Media Supply Chain and Archive9:25
In this session, we are talking about the Media Supply chain and the different components associated with it. We are also covering storage, archival and localization of content including some of the core services that you can use in AWS Cloud.

References
Architecture diagram:
Reference: https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/implementations/media2cloud/
Slide Cloud Services
https://aws.amazon.com/media/supply-chain-archive/
Case Study:
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/media/nippon-television-network-corporation-implements-cloud-playout-using-aws/
Broadcast9:27
In this session, you will learn more about broadcast technology and how you can leverage AWS Services to build broadcast workflows in the cloud.

References
Architecture diagram:
https://aws.amazon.com/media/broadcast/
Slide Cloud Services
https://aws.amazon.com/media/broadcast/
Case Studies:
https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/innovators/fox/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSdkwA-id_U&t=50s
Direct to Consumer and Streaming16:25
In this session, we are talking about video streaming workflows in general and also different applications of streaming workflows such as OTT, User Generated Contents(UGC). We are also covering AWS Media Services to build video streaming workloads in AWS cloud.

References
Architecture diagram:
https://aws.amazon.com/media/direct-to-consumer-d2c-streaming/
IVS:
https://aws.amazon.com/ivs/
Slide Cloud Services:
https://aws.amazon.com/media/direct-to-consumer-d2c-streaming/
Case Studies:
https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/netflix
Data Science and Analytics for Media9:27
In this session, we are talking about video streaming workflows in general and also different applications of streaming workflows such as OTT, User Generated Contents(UGC). We are also covering AWS Media Services to build video streaming workloads in AWS cloud.

References
Use cases:
https://aws.amazon.com/media/data-science-analytics/
Slide Cloud Services:
https://aws.amazon.com/media/data-science-analytics/
Case Studies:
https://aws.amazon.com/f1/
https://aws.amazon.com/nfl/
Conclusion0:56
Conclusion.

Requirements

Basic IT knowledge only required.

Description

During the Covid pandemic, we have seen different industries started using streaming technologies to redefine the way they operate. For example:

Educational institutions started leveraging on streaming platforms to share educational contents to the students.
E-commerce websites started using live streaming platforms for product selling.
The number of users accessing OTT platforms quadrupled in the past two years.

All these changes in the industry opened up new opportunities for IT specialists to embark on.

This course outlines the history and the technical constructs behind Media Streaming Technology and the components associated with it. Through this course, you will learn more about Streaming Media in general and its applications, use-cases (OTT, Music Streaming, UGC Streaming etc.) and reference workflows. You will learn more about how to leverage on Cloud Services to create highly scalable, reliable and fault tolerant streaming platforms. You will also be introduced to some of the core services in AWS Cloud that helps you to build Media Workloads in the cloud.

Our goal through these training materials is to educate the IT experts about this industry vertical within the technology industry and raise more technically capable Media and Entertainment specialist within the IT community. If you are an IT expert with some basic cloud knowledge and you want to learn more about the video compression and distribution mechanisms, this course is for you.

Who this course is for:

Any IT experts who wants to know more about video streaming workflows in general and applications of Media and Entertainment workflows in the cloud
Any Broadcast/Video expert who wants to learn about the Media possibilities offered by AWS platform
Anyone interested in Cloud Computing and/or Media streaming technologies