Customers with on-premises video sources or local network destinations have a range of choices when building live video workflows. However, hybrid deployments present challenges with managing and monitoring both ground and cloud resources. AWS Elemental MediaLive Anywhere addresses these challenges by enabling on-premises live video encoding with cloud-based management.

MediaLive Anywhere extends the capabilities of AWS Elemental MediaLive, allowing customers to encode video using the cloud for management and control while keeping the video processing on premises. This means you can now enjoy the same benefits of MediaLive – including consistent APIs, monitoring tools, and pay-as-you-go pricing – but with the flexibility of on-premises encoding.

“When you can’t get your live video sources to the cloud, MediaLive Anywhere brings the cloud to you,” said Manish Rao, GM, AWS Elemental. “If you have a video source or destination anchored on premises or a compute investment that you want to continue to use, MediaLive Anywhere brings the same great capabilities, APIs, monitoring tools, console, and pay-as-you-go pricing that you get with MediaLive to enable encoding anywhere.”

MediaLive Anywhere allows you to manage hybrid or on-premises video encoding with consistent APIs, channel profiles, logs, and metrics. All of your channels can be configured, controlled, and monitored in one place – even when you have multiple on-premises locations.

“AWS Elemental MediaLive Anywhere has the ability to transform the way we deliver live video to our subscribers,” said Flavio Ribeiro, Senior Engineering Manager, Live Encoding Technologies at Netflix. “The consistent experience between on premises and cloud workflows, automated software updates, and integrated support will make it simple to deploy and control new video workloads anywhere.”

MediaLive Anywhere offers a number of advantages for customers with hybrid deployments. It reduces the need to send video back and forth to the cloud, minimizing latency and costs. It also allows you to easily connect to on-premises video sources and destinations, and simplifies management and monitoring.

“MediaLive Anywhere simplifies our operation of on-premises and cloud live encoding immensely,” said Loke Dupont, Staff Engineer for Live Technology at TV 2 Danmark. “Being able to control everything from a single point in the cloud and having software upgrades happen automatically and transparently gives us time to focus on user experience instead of operations.”

For customers with existing AWS Elemental Live appliances or software, AWS recommends purchasing MediaLive Anywhere hardware from a partner that assembles, integrates, and tests the hardware to ensure it’s ready for use. You can purchase both hardware and AWS services through a partner, or use your own AWS account to pay for services.

“We are excited to offer sales, integration, and priority support for MediaLive Anywhere,” said Richie Murray, Founder and CEO of Bridge Digital Inc. “The combination of COTS hardware with MediaLive delivers a robust hybrid solution, ideal for seasonal events with pay-as-you-go pricing. With our deep experience selling AWS Elemental appliances, Bridge Digital is proud to be a supplier of MediaLive Anywhere to our customers.”

“Insys Video Technologies is thrilled to be a launch partner for MediaLive Anywhere, delivering hardware and enabling our clients to manage live encoding workflows in the cloud and on premises through Cloud Video Kit,” said Krzysztof Bartkowski, CEO at Insys. “With our integration, customers don’t need to run multiple tools and distinct workflows. They just choose the optimum resource usage using a single tool, including content protection through drm.cloud service.”

Jens Gnad, Managing Director at LOGIC media solutions GmbH, said, “We are honored to contribute to the innovative approach introduced by AWS with AWS Elemental Live Anywhere in our software PORTAL. This hybrid solution aligns perfectly with the recommendations we provide to our customers on their journey to the cloud. PORTAL offers an easily accessible, browser-based front end to deploy, control, and monitor MediaLive Anywhere on our customers’ local infrastructure.”