Optimize your live video transcoding costs and resources without sacrificing quality in the public cloud.
Experience the benefits of hardware-accelerated real time video transcoding, without the investment of a scale-out deployment, with the industry’s lowest cost per stream on Amazon EC2 VT1 instances.
Reach more viewers
Massively scale out your live video streams to millions of viewers without sacrificing reliability.
Lower your cost per stream
Scale up or down as needed. Pay only for what you need
Simple migration
Fast track your move to the Cloud with easy-to-use APIs, customizations, and step-by-step tutorials.
Go Green
Support sustainability goals with the industry’s lowest power solution
Real-time streaming for interactive, immersive content
Eliminate the guesswork from your video transcoding decisions with the only true hardware-based solution that delivers the elastic flexibility, efficiency, and reliability you need to deliver low cost video streaming at scale.
Powered by AMD-Xilinx, Amazon EC2 VT1 instances enable you to support millions of live video streams - no matter how big your audience - with the industry’s lowest cost per channel. And with ultra-low latencies for real-time transcoding, you’ll experience live video conferencing with natural human interactions.
Lower cost vs GPU
Simultaneous 1080p60 streams in real time
Support for up to 4K UHD at 60fps
Gbps of high speed networking and storage
You’re in the business to deliver content, not write code.
Take the guesswork out of accelerating your streaming applications with our turnkey software developers kit (SDK). Quickly transcode your live video content with standards-based FFmpeg, GStreamer, or your own proprietary framework via C/C++ APIs and get up and running in just one day. No FPGA experience necessary.
Explore all the tools and APIs you need to accelerate your streaming applications on GitHub.
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Twitch Selects AWS VT1 for Live Streaming
“We are adopting Amazon EC2 VT1 instances to cost-efficiently transcode millions of live streams to deliver high streaming quality for viewers all over the world. We chose EC2 VT1 instances because they deliver the stream density and low latency we need without compromising on video compression or visual quality.”
Produce Live Broadcasts from the Field in Real Time
Compose, produce and distribute live, encoded video and interactive content in the cloud to any output.
With Skreens, you can deliver secure video uploads with single sign-on and powerful encryption as well as the ability to reinvent live-video experiences on demand, and at scale over Amazon EC2 VT1 instances.
Xilinx Real-Time Server - High Channel Density Appliance
Video streaming providers need the performance, flexibility, and affordability they can only get from an adaptive computing platform.
Learn how you can future-proof your data center to support live video stream in this ebook.
On-Premises Video Transcoding
Want to accelerate your live video streams in your own data center?