During the Covid pandemic, we have seen different industries started using streaming technologies to redefine the way they operate. For example: Educational institutions started leveraging on streaming platforms to share educational contents to the students. E-commerce websites started using live streaming platforms for product selling. The number of users accessing OTTplatforms quadrupled in the past two years. All these changes in the industry opened up new opportunities for ITspecialists to embark on. This course outlines the history and the technical constructs behind Media Streaming Technology and the components associated with it. Through this course, you will learn more about Streaming Media in general and its applications, use-cases (OTT, Music Streaming, UGC Streaming etc.) and reference workflows. You will learn more about how to leverage on Cloud Services to create highly scalable, reliable and fault tolerant streaming platforms. You will also be introduced to some of the core services in AWS Cloud that helps you to build Media Workloads in the cloud. Our goal through these training materials is to educate the ITexperts about this industry vertical within the technology industry and raise more technically capable Media and Entertainment specialist within the ITcommunity. If you are an ITexpert with some basic cloud knowledge and you want to learn more about the video compression and distribution mechanisms, this course is for you.
