Video Streaming Essentials for AWS Media Services

Length 2 days

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Why study this course

Learn the best practices for designing and using cloud-based video workflows.

This instructor-led training course covers important concepts related to video processing and delivery, the variables that can impact migration decisions, and real-world examples of hybrid and cloud use cases for AWS Media Services. It also introduces security, machine learning, and analytics concepts to help you consider how AWS Media Services fit into your overall cloud strategy.

This intermediate-level course is delivered through a mix of instructor-led training (ILT) and hands-on labs.

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What you’ll learn

This course is designed to teach participants how to:

Articulate the essential terms and concepts fundamental to making video streaming workflow decisions, including video metrics, compression, distribution, and protocols.
Describe the four fundamental stages of video streaming workflows: ingest, process, store, and deliver.
Describe which AWS services can be used in each stage of a video streaming workflow, including ingest, processing, storage, and delivery.
Analyse video streaming workflow diagrams using AWS services, based on simple to complex use cases.
Recognise the key variables that influence workflow decisions.
Recognise how AWS services for compliance, storage, and compute interact with AWS Media Services in video streaming workflows and the functions they perform.
Use the AWS Management Console to build and run simple video streaming workflows for live and video-on-demand content.
Recognise the automation and data analytics available for Media Services when used with AWS Machine Learning and explore media-specific use cases for these services.
Explain the importance of security in the AWS Cloud and how it is applied in video streaming workflows.

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Lumify Work is an official AWS Training Partner for Australia, New Zealand, and the Philippines. Through our Authorised AWS Instructors, we can provide you with a learning path that’s relevant to you and your organisation, so you can get more out of the cloud. We offer virtual and face-to-face classroom-based training to help you build your cloud skills and enable you to achieve industry-recognised AWS Certification.

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Who is the course for?

This course is intended for individuals who work in or are considering migration to AWS Media Services, including those in the following roles:

Video Operator/Engineer
Developer
Architect
Project Manager/Engineer

Course subjects

Module 1: Important Video Concepts

Resolution, bitrate, frame rate, latency, and compression
Codecs and containers
Group of pictures (GOP) encoding
ABR, packaging and distribution
Internet protocols used in video streaming

Module 2: Anatomy of Streaming Workflows

Four stages of video streaming
Variables that affect design decisions

Module 3: Using AWS Services in Video-on-Demand (VOD) Workflows

Converting a film or tape library for internet streaming
Increasing reach and accessibility using multiple languages and captions
Streaming edited highlights from a live event
Analysing and tagging VOD files for media content analysis using machine learning and data analytics

Module 4: Optimising Workflows

Security
Migrating to the cloud
Cloud financial management

Module 5: Using AWS Services in Live Workflows

Challenges of live streaming
Live streaming a simple interview show
Live streaming a major sporting event to a global audience
Live switching between multiple inputs
Saving segments from a live show to create VOD segments

Module 6: Recap and Review

Module 7: Next Step

Please note: This is an emerging technology course. Course outline is subject to change as needed.

Prerequisites

We strongly recommend learners complete the required prerequisites prior to class, and suggest completion of the optional prerequisites for an optimal experience.

Required:

Optional:

AWS Technical Essentials

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