Getting Started with AWS Elemental MediaLive

Get started with Workflow Wizard

Learn how to use the Workflow Wizard feature of AWS Elemental MediaLive to create a live video streaming workflow in just a few minutes. With step-by-step guidance, the MediaLive Workflow Wizard walks you through setting up your channel by selecting redundancy requirements, input source, transcoding formats, origination, and Amazon CloudFront for content delivery.

Get started in 6 steps

1

Set up and log into your AWS account

Log into the AWS Management Console and set up your account.

2

Set up IAM permissions

Create an Identity and Access Management (IAM) role to assume.

3

Set your destination

Configure an origin like AWS Elemental MediaStore or packager such as AWS Elemental MediaPackage to receive your live content.

4

Select a video source

Identify a video source from a live feed or file to use as an input.

5

Create, configure, and run your channel

Plan your channel workflow to enable live video streaming.

6

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For more, read the documentation.

Pre-built solutions

AWS provides a live streaming solution that combines AWS Elemental MediaLive and AWS Elemental MediaPackage with Amazon CloudFront to build a highly resilient and scalable architecture that delivers your live content worldwide.

AWS provides a real-time subtitling solution for live streaming video content that combines Amazon Transcribe, Amazon Translate, and AWS Lambda to build a serverless architecture that automatically generates multi-language subtitles for your live streaming videos.

AWS offers a solution that displays the logical connections between media services, visualizes error messages and counts, and produces a list of confidence-ranked root causes for problematic workflows.

See all solutions here.

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