Related Services

Amazon CloudWatch is a monitoring service for AWS Cloud resources and the applications that you run on AWS. Use CloudWatch to track MediaLive events about the progress of running channels and to view metrics about your resources.

AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) is a web service that helps you securely control access to AWS resources for your users. Use IAM to control who can use your AWS resources (authentication) and what resources users can use in which ways (authorization).

AWS Elemental MediaPackage is a just-in-time video packaging and origination service that runs in the AWS Cloud. You can use AWS Elemental MediaPackage to package content that has been encoded by MediaLive.

AWS Elemental MediaConnect is a transport service for live video that runs in the AWS Cloud. You can use MediaConnect as a source for video to transcode.

AWS Elemental MediaStore is a video origination and storage service that offers the high performance and immediate consistency required for live and on-demand media. You can use AWS Elemental MediaStore to store assets that MediaLive retrieves and uses when transcoding, and as a destination for output from MediaLive.

AWS Resource Groups includes a tagging editor that lets you assign metadata to AWS resources. You can use Tag Editor to assign metadata to MediaLive channels and other resources.

Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is storage for the internet. You can use Amazon S3 to store assets that MediaLive retrieves and uses when transcoding, and as a destination for output from MediaLive.

AWS Systems Manager lets you store passwords in MediaLive in a secure manner, rather than storing them as plaintext. If you connect to external servers that you provide user credentials for, it is likely that you will have to use Systems Manager.

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud lets you set up your own virtual network within the AWS Cloud. Use Amazon VPC as the location for an upstream system, so that the transfer of source content is within a private cloud.