Mihai Nadas - Windows Azure Media Services
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This document provides an overview of Windows Azure Media Services (WAMS). It discusses the growing trends in online video consumption and the challenges of building platforms like YouTube at scale. WAMS aims to simplify hosting and streaming video online through its features like encoding, packaging, playback across devices, DRM, and APIs. The document outlines the WAMS architecture and workflow, provides a demo, and shares how the London 2012 Olympics leveraged WAMS as a case study before concluding on its cross-platform capabilities.
Mihai Nadas - Windows Azure Media Services
- 1. Windows Azure Media Services Mihai Nadăș Yonder November 10 2012
- 2. About myself
- 3. Copyright Content is based on Microsoft official presentations on Windows Azure Media Services presented at TechEd Australia
- 4. Outline About Windows Azure The trends in the video world The WAMS promise A quick look at the features and the architecture DEMO Conclusions
- 5. Windows Azure Released on February 1 2010 (2 years ago) Microsoft’s Public Cloud proposition PaaS and IaaS cloud services Core features Websites Virtual Machines Mobile Services Cloud Services Big Data Media Services
- 6. Defining the problem Why the need for Media Services?
- 7. Videos explosion 35% of the Internet traffic is Video Over 50% of Internet traffic will be video in the next three years
- 9. Smarter devices 50M Internet Connected TVs sold this year 150M+ Video capable cell phones Over 66M Xbox consoles sold to date
- 10. YouTube Facts 60 hours of video gets uploaded every minute 4,000,000,000 videos watched every day 800,000,000 monthly visitors In 2011 more than 1 trillion videos were viewed, that’s about 140 views for each person on the planet
- 11. Million dollar challenge Imagine you’d have to architect YouTube. How would you do it?
- 13. The features
- 14. The features: highlights Pre-encrypt uploaded content with AES 256 Ecodes to H.264 or VC-1 for video AAC-LC, HE-AAC, Dolby DD+, WMA for audio Packages to MP4, HLS, Smooth Streaming, HDS, WMV DRM with PlayReady Streaming with guaranteed bandwidth, auto recovery/redundancy and high availability
- 16. Arhitecture
- 17. APIs and SDKs
- 18. Workflow of WAMS
- 20. London 2012 Olympics: Case Study
- 21. Conclusions Handling online videos has never been easier Still in preview, but looks promissing Cross-platform, so it works in Ruby too windowsazure.com
- 22. Diamond Sponsors Platinum Sponsors Gold Sponsors Training Partners Media Partners Other Partners