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Amazon MGM Studios moves editing to the cloud with Avid and AWS

The studio's customers can now deploy Avid’s editing and storage solutions via the cloud to fit their specific production needs

Amazon MGM Studios has signed an agreement to continue deploying Avid’s Media Composer and Avid NEXIS, on Amazon Web Services (AWS).

The new integration will enable the studio’s customers to deploy Avid’s editing and storage solutions via the cloud to fit their specific production needs.

According to Avid, its tools will help power Amazon MGM Studios’ adoption of cloud-based post production workflows on AWS.

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“Amazon MGM Studios’ continued relationship with Avid underscores our confidence in the role Avid NEXIS and Avid Media Composer play in the cloud-powered post-production future,” said Raf Soltanovich, VP of technology, Prime Video & Amazon MGM Studios.

“Today, through the Studio’s own offering with AWS, we can deploy Avid NEXIS to our productions around the world in minutes, which helps us ensure we have best-in-class tools to support our productions.”

Avid CEO Wellford Dillard added: “We are meeting the pent-up demand of enterprise-class customers for a secure, scalable, and high-performance post-production solution on AWS. Amazon MGM Studios’ integration of Avid Media Composer and Avid NEXIS not only shows the critical role our technology continues to play in media production workflows, it also proves that cloud-native post-production is empowering successful creators everywhere, today.”