Amazon Web Services (AWS) is partnering with BBC R&D, Sky, Adobe, and CuttingRoom to launch the Cloud Native Agile Production (CNAP) project, an open-source initiative aimed at accelerating the creation and delivery of media during live production.
The interoperable framework provides a single virtual store for live content, making it easier to migrate production to the cloud and rapidly create video highlights clips and packages for integration into live content, social sharing, and other applications, said AWS.
“By providing an open interoperable approach to fast turnaround media workflows, the Cloud Native Agile Production project is breaking down workflow silos, bringing the technology to support live broadcast and streaming, social media publishing, archive/record, VD streaming, and more into one cloud-native environment. This convergence unlocks incredible new efficiencies, flexibility, and operational benefits for content providers,” said Chris Blandy, director of strategic business development for media and entertainment, games and sports at AWS.”
BBC R&D provided its open-source Time Addressable Media Store (TAMS) specification for the project, which is publicly available on GitHub, and stores, queries, and accesses segmented media over HTTP. AWS then began building on top of the open, API-driven architecture to enable users to leverage the CNAP framework to deploy custom TAMS implementations in AWS.
According to AWS, CNAP limits time spent processing content. It supports a serverless, chunked media store approach with Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) providing the underlying storage layer. Amazon S3 enables a ‘store once, use many’ approach to repurposing media, so simple edits can be expressed as a metadata ‘publish’ rather than a new asset or exported file, said the company. This strategy reduces storage duplication, time spent processing storage, and the volume of space required for the same workload.
AWS will spotlight an end-to-end CNAP workflow at IBC on the AWS Stand (5.C90). The demonstration includes partner technologies from Adobe, CuttingRoom, Drastic Technologies, Techex, and Vizrt.
