Course Overview
Video Streaming Essentials for AWS Media Services is an intermediate-level course focused on designing and using cloud-based video workflows with AWS Media Services. It covers essential video concepts, streaming workflow stages, video-on-demand and live streaming scenarios, and the factors that influence workflow design decisions.
Learners explore AWS services used across ingest, processing, storage, and delivery, along with security, cloud migration, financial management, machine learning, and analytics considerations. The course also includes demonstrations and hands-on activities using the AWS Management Console to build and run simple live and video-on-demand streaming workflows.
Course Objective
- Explain essential video streaming concepts, including metrics, compression, distribution, and protocols.
- Describe the four fundamental stages of video streaming workflows: ingest, process, store, and deliver.
- Identify AWS services that can be used across the stages of a video streaming workflow.
- Analyze video streaming workflow diagrams for simple and complex use cases.
- Recognize key variables that influence video streaming workflow design decisions.
- Explain how AWS compliance, storage, and compute services interact with AWS Media Services.
- Build and run simple live and video-on-demand streaming workflows using the AWS Management Console.
- Recognize automation and data analytics capabilities available for AWS Media Services with machine learning.
- Explain the importance of security and its application within video streaming workflows.
Pre-requisites
Required: Video Streaming Concepts: AWS Media Services; Introduction to AWS Media Services by Use Case. Recommended: AWS Technical Essentials.
Course Curriculum
