Document history for AWS Elemental MediaTailor
The following table describes important changes to this documentation.
| Change | Description | Date |
|---|---|---|
Added a note on hoe AlternateMedia affects the As Run Log. | February 28, 2024 | |
MediaTailor channels support time-shifted viewing for content that's up to 6 hours old. | December 27, 2023 | |
Added information about passthrough tags, depending on the chosen Ad markup type. | November 28, 2023 | |
Added information about inserted SCTE-35 tags for | November 28, 2023 | |
Added information about how MediaTailor handles submitted key-value pairs for the
| November 28, 2023 | |
MediaTailor can now automatically detect ad opportunities on VOD sources. | October 6, 2023 | |
MediaTailor now supports the | August 18, 2023 | |
Updated the client-side tracking content to include additional information. | August 12, 2023 | |
Setting up MediaTailor and MediaPackage workflows to use live sources | Added information on setup, general requirements, and behavior when MediaTailor and AWS Elemental MediaPackage workflows use live sources. | May 24, 2023 |
Added a section that describes overlay ads. | April 24, 2023 | |
Added a section that describes ad ID decoration in manifests. | April 24, 2023 | |
| February 21, 2023 | |
New topic on the As Run log. | January 19, 2023 | |
Updated guide to align with the IAM best practices. For more information, see Security best practices in IAM. | December 27, 2022 | |
Updated guide to align with the IAM best practices. For more information, see Security best practices in IAM. | December 27, 2022 | |
Updated and reorganized quotas information. | September 13, 2022 | |
Added quotas for live sources, segment delivery configurations, manifest requests, and channel transactions in the MediaTailor channel assembly service. | September 13, 2022 | |
Added quotas for logging, channel, live sources, programs, source locations, and channel policies in the MediaTailor channel assembly service. | September 11, 2022 | |
You can now see a table that explains channel assembly alerts. | September 1, 2022 | |
Added new CloudWatch metrics. | June 26, 2022 | |
Added link to prefetch support for VAST responses. | May 25, 2022 | |
MediaTailor now supports these additional SCTE-35 variables in ADS requests:
| April 27, 2022 | |
Added two new managed policies for MediaTailor. | November 24, 2021 | |
Added a new AWS managed policy that grants permissions that allows read-only access to MediaTailor resources. | November 10, 2021 | |
Added a new AWS managed policy that allows full access to MediaTailor resources. | November 10, 2021 | |
Added a topic that explains how to prevent the confused deputy problem. | November 4, 2021 | |
MediaTailor can now prefetch ads for ad breaks before they occur. | October 12, 2021 | |
Added logging configuration settings for playback configurations | Use logging configuration settings to control settings related to playback configuration logs. | September 28, 2021 |
Added information about using | September 1, 2021 | |
Added a new linear playback mode. | September 1, 2021 | |
Added support for absolute transition types, which allow you to set a wall clock start time for your program on linear channels. | September 1, 2021 | |
You can now monitor your channel assembly resources using MediaTailor alerts. When an issue or a potential issue occurs with your channel assembly resources, MediaTailor generates alerts. | July 14, 2021 | |
Corrected channel assembly quotas for channels egress requests | Corrected quotas for channels egress requests in the MediaTailor channel assembly service. | June 29, 2021 |
MediaTailor now supports Secrets Manager access token authentication. | June 16, 2021 | |
Added information about the modes and source types that each Tier supports. | June 13, 2021 | |
For Standard channels, added information about the type of source that the program plays. | June 13, 2021 | |
A live source represents a single live stream that you add to your source location. After you create your channel, you can add live sources to your source location and associate each live source with a program. | June 13, 2021 | |
MediaTailor now supports ADS Information (0xE) and User Defined (0x1) segmentation UPID types. | April 15, 2021 | |
There are three new dynamic variables:
| April 15, 2021 | |
Added information about the new channel assembly service. | March 11, 2021 | |
Channel assembly is a new manifest-only service that allows you to create linear streaming channels using your existing video on demand (VOD) content. | March 11, 2021 | |
Added quotas for the new MediaTailor channel assembly service. | March 11, 2021 | |
Added terms that correspond to the new channel assembly service. | March 10, 2021 | |
Added support for tagging of channel assembly resources in AWS Elemental MediaTailor. Channels, SourceLocations, and VodSources support tagging. | March 9, 2021 | |
MediaTailor now supports dynamic domain variables. | February 25, 2021 | |
Use configuration aliases alongside domain variables to dynamically configure domains during session initialization. | February 25, 2021 | |
Added support for the | December 5, 2020 | |
Ad marker passthrough is now available for HLS manifests. | October 29, 2020 | |
Ad marker passthrough is a new playback configuration advanced setting. | October 14, 2020 | |
New topic on the DEBUG log mode. | August 14, 2020 | |
Clarification around EXT-X-CUE-OUT duration attribute for bumpers | Updated the bumpers requirements so that for HLS the
| August 5, 2020 |
Added a new bumpers topic | July 27, 2020 | |
Ad suppression is now available for DASH. Removed the "HLS-only" restriction from the ad suppression topic. | June 3, 2020 | |
Updated console-specific names to reflect a newer version of the console UI. | May 1, 2020 | |
Added support for the new | March 13, 2020 | |
For client-side reporting, the | March 10, 2020 | |
Added support for the personalization threshold optional configuration. | February 14, 2020 | |
Added support for video on demand (VOD) DASH manifests from the origin server, with multi-period manifest output. | December 23, 2019 | |
Added description for transcode profile name in the configuration. | December 23, 2019 | |
Updated limits for ADS redirects and ADS timeouts. | December 18, 2019 | |
Added a section about content distribution network (CDN) best practices for personalized manifests. | December 13, 2019 | |
Added Pre-Roll Ad Insertion section to describe how live pre-roll ads work with AWS Elemental MediaTailor. | November 26, 2019 | |
Added support for inserting pre-roll ads at the beginning of a live stream. | September 11, 2019 | |
Added information for using the AWS Elemental MediaTailor ADS logs and CloudWatch Logs Insights to analyze your MediaTailor sessions. | August 13, 2019 | |
Added a security chapter to enhance and standardize coverage. | May 23, 2019 | |
Added support for single-period DASH manifests from the origin server, with multi-period manifest output. | April 4, 2019 | |
Added support for including a unique program ID (UPID) in the ad decision server (ADS) URL. This allows the ADS to provide program-level ad targeting within a live linear stream. | March 28, 2019 | |
For client-side reporting, the AWS Elemental MediaTailor tracking URL response now includes companion ad metadata. | March 28, 2019 | |
Added a section that describes supported HLS ad markers. | March 1, 2019 | |
Added support for tagging of configuration resources in AWS Elemental MediaTailor. Tagging allows you to identify and organize your AWS resources and control access to them and to track your AWS costs. | February 14, 2019 | |
Added topic about using CloudTrail to log actions in the AWS Elemental MediaTailor API. | February 11, 2019 | |
Added information about the errors that might be returned by MediaTailor during playback, in response to requests from a player or a content delivery network (CDN). | February 4, 2019 | |
Added support for providing splicing information in manifests in base64-encoded
binary, inside | January 4, 2019 | |
Added support for providing splicing information in manifests inside
| December 5, 2018 | |
Added support for the MPEG-DASH | December 4, 2018 | |
Added support for MPEG-DASH manifests. | November 14, 2018 | |
Updated limits for configurations and manifest size. | October 13, 2018 | |
Added metrics for ad decision server (ADS) and origin timeouts, and updated the ADS and origin error definitions to include timed-out responses. | October 13, 2018 | |
Better documentation coverage for server-side and client-side ad insertion use cases | Expanded description and examples to cover the use of dynamic ad variables for server-side ad insertion and for client-side ad insertion. | October 1, 2018 |
Added support for the PDX and FRA Regions. | July 18, 2018 | |
Added information about VAST and VPAID. | March 16, 2018 | |
Added information about available CloudWatch metrics, namespaces, and dimensions. | March 16, 2018 | |
Added support for the Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Regions. | February 8, 2018 | |
Added the list of paths for the Amazon CloudFront distribution where AWS Elemental MediaTailor stores ads. | February 6, 2018 | |
Added IAM policy information specific to AWS Elemental MediaTailor. Added instructions for creating non-admin roles with limited permissions. | January 3, 2018 | |
First release of this documentation. | November 27, 2017 |
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The AWS Media Services are not designed or intended for use with applications or in situations requiring fail‐safe performance, such as life safety operations, navigation or communication systems, air traffic control, or life support machines in which the unavailability, interruption or failure of the services could lead to death, personal injury, property damage or environmental damage.
