Media Services Insights Hub
Introduction
The Media Services Insights Hub (MSIH) dashboard provides comprehensive visibility into AWS Elemental Media Services usage, costs, and performance metrics. This dashboard leverages AWS Cost and Usage Report (CUR) data to deliver actionable insights for optimizing media workflows and managing costs across your media infrastructure.
The dashboard covers key AWS Elemental Media Services including:
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AWS Elemental MediaConnect
- Secure, reliable live video transport -
AWS Elemental MediaConvert
- File-based video transcoding -
AWS Elemental MediaLive
- Live video processing -
AWS Elemental MediaPackage
- Video origination and packaging -
AWS Elemental MediaTailor
- Video personalization and monetization

The MSIH dashboard is organized into intuitive tabs:
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Executive Summary High-level overview of media services costs, usage trends, and key performance indicators across all services.
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MediaLive Reservations & Savings Deep-dive into current and potential savings achieved through AWS Elemental MediaLive reservations.
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MediaConnect Detailed analysis of live video transport costs, connection usage, and data transfer metrics.
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MediaConvert Comprehensive view of transcoding job costs, queue utilization, and processing time analysis.
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MediaLive In-depth monitoring of live streaming costs, channel utilization, and reservation optimization opportunities.
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MediaTailor Insights into ad insertion costs, session metrics, and revenue optimization opportunities.
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MediaPackage Analysis of video packaging and origination costs, endpoint usage, and content delivery metrics.
Each tab provides progressively detailed insights to help you optimize your media workflows and control costs effectively.
Demo Dashboard
Get more familiar with the dashboard using the live, interactive demo by following this
link

Prerequisites
Deploy the CID Foundational Dashboards stack. This will enable your CUR, Amazon Athena and QuickSight resources required for this and other dashboards.
Deployment
Update
Please note that currently dashboards can be initially deployed via CloudFormation but they cannot be updated through CloudFormation Stack updates. When new version of the dashboard template is released, you can update your dashboard by running the following command in your command-line interface:
cid-cmd update --dashboard-id media-services-insights
Dashboard Customization
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Unleash your data creativity! Dive into custom analysis by creating your own visuals from this dashboard. Follow our quick guide to get started.
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To integrate CID with AWS Organizations for enhanced cost visibility across multiple accounts and organizational units follow the documentation to add taxonomy details
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To set up cost allocation tags for better resource tracking and cost attribution across your media services, follow the Cost Allocation Tags documentation
Usage Guide
There are multiple tabs available in this dashboard.
Cost Optimization Recommendations
There are a several ways to optimize your Elemental costs. Below are some of them.
Authors & Contributors
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Krutarth Doshi, Sr. Technical Account Manager
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Eric Christensen, Sr. Technical Account Manager
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Ala Muhtaseb, Sr. Solutions Architect
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Imane Zeroual, Sr. Cloud Operations Architect
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Guillaume Girault, Technical Account Manager
Feedback & Support
Follow Feedback & Support guide
Have a success story to share with the Team, suggest an improvement or report an error?
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Please email: cloud-intelligence-dashboards-media-services@amazon.com
Note
These dashboards and their content: (a) are for informational purposes only, (b) represents current AWS product offerings and practices, which are subject to change without notice, and (c) does not create any commitments or assurances from AWS and its affiliates, suppliers or licensors. AWS content, products or services are provided "as is" without warranties, representations, or conditions of any kind, whether express or implied. The responsibilities and liabilities of AWS to its customers are controlled by AWS agreements, and this document is not part of, nor does it modify, any agreement between AWS and its customers.