While it may seem easy, making video play across a hundred different devices (like Netflix does) is actually a giant pain in the butt -- unless you use a service like Amazon Web Service's new Elastic ...

Another move today from Amazon that speaks to its growing presence in content delivery and enterprise services, done at competition-beating prices: today the company launched Elastic Transcoder, a new ...

For a video-on-demand service as popular as the BBC's iPlayer – it served three billion programme requests in 2013 alone – resilience, continuous availability and scalable storage are a must. And this ...

Live transcoding on the web has quickly evolved into the optimal workflow for streaming live events. In this schema, you send a single efficient stream to the cloud, transcode the stream to produce a ...