AWS Elemental Link UHD Now Supports MediaConnect
Increase video processing and distribution flexibility using AWS Elemental Link UHD with AWS Elemental MediaConnect
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced that AWS Elemental Link UHD now supports AWS Elemental MediaConnect. Combining Link UHD with MediaConnect is a simple and cost-effective way to create live video workflows in the cloud, saving time and resources compared to traditional on-premises, satellite, or fiber infrastructure. Customers have more flexibility in how they process live video and can add broadcast-grade monitoring or integrate ISV or AWS Partner applications into their live video applications.
Previously, Link could only connect to AWS Elemental MediaLive as a channel input. While customers love this capability, they wanted to extend the ease of contribution to other AWS Media Services. With MediaConnect support for Link UHD, you can now enjoy the same ease of connection model to send video to the cloud. This opens up Link UHD to more use cases such as low-latency contribution, monitoring, and distribution where additional transcoding may not be required.
Link UHD device setup is simple and does not require technical expertise: you simply plug in video, ethernet, and power. To pair Link UHD with MediaConnect, you create a flow using the AWS Management Console or API and MediaConnect returns an ingest endpoint for use to send video. MediaConnect is then ready to replicate and distribute the video stream to destinations you specify, both inside and outside of AWS. With the ability of MediaConnect to transport video using the AWS network to global destinations, you can create simple, reliable, and cost-effective video workflows catered to your unique requirements.
With Link UHD and MediaConnect, customers can access their video feeds before they are encoded with AWS Elemental MediaLive, gaining control over processing and reducing latency. Once video is in MediaConnect, it can be transported to other AWS Regions, securely replicated and shared with partners, and even sent back on premises.
MediaConnect support in Link UHD is also important to streaming video platform providers and companies that transport video for their customers to multiple destinations for monitoring or for use in live streaming and broadcast applications.
Customers building live cloud production solutions require more control over how their video is processed. Using MediaConnect, video can be sent directly to Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, and customers can deploy applications using software from ISVs and AWS Partners. Video is delivered with low latency in its original contribution video quality, and the Link UHD device is easy for even non-technical people to deploy in just about any location on premises.
AWS Elemental Link UHD, a compact cloud-managed encoder, simplifies the process of connecting live HDMI or SDI video sources, such as cameras or other production equipment, to the cloud for processing and distribution. AWS Elemental MediaConnect is a reliable, secure, and flexible transport service for securely sharing or processing live video.
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