Media Services
Cloud services for premium video workflows
- Studio-grade encoding at cloud scale
- One player for all your playback needs
- Greater discoverability and accessibility of media through media intelligence
- Content protection and encryption delivered by AES and PlayReady
- On-demand and live video streaming with integrated Content Delivery Network capabilities
- Broad ecosystem of value-added partners
- Explore Media Services:
- Pricing details
- Documentation
Start sharing your media content
Azure Media Services offers broadcast-quality video streaming services to reach larger audiences on today’s most popular mobile devices. With features that enhance accessibility, distribution, and scalability, Media Services makes it easy and cost-effective to stream your content to audiences both local and worldwide—all while protecting your content. Get an overview of delivering content to customers.
Stream broadcast and OTT video
Build your online audience and extend your reach by distributing your content to viewers on phones, tablets, and all their digital devices. Plus, take advantage of current event or niche markets by bringing new channels to market quickly and encoding over-the-top (OTT) video to multiple formats.
Broadcast and over-the-top streaming use cases
- TV everywhere
- Linear programming
- Catch-up TV
- Video on demand (VOD)
Benefits
- Scale to all audience sizes
- Rapidly develop solutions
- Support virtually all devices
- Deliver high-quality experiences
- Save with flexible cost options
Customers using Media Services for broadcast
Stream sports and live events
Having handled such large events as the FIFA World Cup and the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, Media Services is a proven and reliable live event streaming service that manages costs and reduces the complexity of streaming live events across a broad range of devices—from smart phones to Internet-connected TVs. See how to work with channels that are enabled to perform live encoding.
Live streaming use cases
- Live sports
- Concerts
- Breaking news
- House of worship broadcasts
Benefits
- Scale to all audience sizes
- Rapidly develop solutions
- Support virtually any device
- Use flexible workflows
- Save with pay-as-you-go pricing
- Seamlessly integrate with Content Delivery Network
Customers using Media Services for live events
Deliver corporate content
Reach employees and customers anywhere on any device in a secure, scalable manner. Make your corporate communications, training, and even knowledge sharing more accessible by combining Media Services with easy-to-use solutions, including Skype Meeting Broadcast, Office 365 Video, or customizable solutions from our partners. Plus, easily manage all of your content using Azure Classic Portal.
Corporate content streaming use cases
- Corporate communication
- Training
- Knowledge sharing platform
- Videos on your company website
- Live conferences, webinars, and events
Benefits
- Help secure content
- Get enterprise scale
- Efficiently deliver across screens
- Gain flexibility, maintain control
- Rely on high uptime
Customers using Media Services
Media Services partners
Deliver government content
Use Media Services and Azure Government to deliver security-enhanced video streaming to mobile devices. Plus, enhance accessibility to critical documents by indexing media files with Azure Media Indexer. With physical and logical network-isolated instance of Azure, as well as end-to-end encryption, Azure Government helps ensure security and compliance for government agencies.
Government content streaming use cases
- Town halls
- City council meetings
- Public safety
- Dashboard and body cameras
- Video analytics
- Court transcriptions
Benefits
- Rely on a Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS)–compliant solution
- Depend on a physical and logical network-isolated instance of Azure
- Meet a broad range of strict compliance requirements
- Encrypt media end to end
- Help secure live event streaming with archiving and cloud DVR
- Get advanced encryption and Digital Rights Management support
Trusted to meet government demands
Media Services is available on Azure Government—designed to meet complex and critical requirements for US federal, Department of Defense, state, and local government agencies. Some of the certifications we have include FedRAMP certification, Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) certification, support to enable IRS 1075 compliance, and the ability to issue Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Business Associate Agreements. Azure Government is a CJIS–capable platform, which means that we work directly with states to sign state-level CJIS information agreements and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) CJIS security addendums.
How Fuji Television Network uses Media Services
"For our NEXTsmart product to be successful we need to deliver our content to the devices where our consumers want to consume it. Fuji TV is using Azure Media Services for 24x7 delivery of three linear channels and the cross platform reach it provides has created new audiences for our services.”
Katsuya Seki, Technical Producer
Fuji Television Network, Inc.
Real Madrid brings the stadium closer to 450 million fans around the globe, with Azure Media Services
Israeli government turns to Microsoft Azure
By choosing Azure, government officials are saving hundreds of thousands of dollars in hardware and maintenance costs.
How Media Services fuel the NASA Jet Propulsion Labratory
JPL uses Media Indexer, part of the Azure Media Services, for a space-age solution that turns spoken words into textual data for faster searches.
Rio 2016 Summer Games break streaming records; Azure is ready for Olympic-size livestream events
Capabilities
Media Analytics
Speech and vision services at enterprise scale, with security, compliance, and global reach