AWS re:Invent 2015 | (CMP405) Containerizing Video: The Next Generation Video Transcoding Pipeline

Опубликовано 9 октября 2015, 21:24

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Media delivery requirements are continually changing, driven by accelerating mobile, tablet, smart TV, and set-top technology advances. Media services need to deliver higher-resolution content at lower bitrates to consumers, which has traditionally been a compute-intensive undertaking with slow advancements in the adoption of video codecs, containers, and related technologies.

In this session, we look at some of the existing workflow constraints, and explore a solution to process media in an agile fashion using modern, efficient codecs. We use Amazon S3 events and AWS Lambda to configure media both pre- and post-process, process content in parallel with Amazon ECS using custom containers for a high level of elastic compute density, and deliver generated media to reference protocol clients via Amazon CloudFront. We also leverage Amazon EFS for scalable, shared storage in the distributed containerized environment for video processing. Issues include: parallel processing of content using Amazon ECS, pipelining and conversion of data using AWS Lambda, building an Amazon ECS-based media transcoding cluster, and delivering next-gen media through Amazon CloudFront.