How MediaLive Anywhere works

An AWS Elemental MediaLive Anywhere deployment involves several components:

• Networks in your organization. These networks are represented by the bright blue boxes in the diagram that follows.

• Clusters (blue boxes), which group channel placement groups, nodes, and channels.

• Nodes (green boxes), which represent the node hardware. Typically, your deployment includes enough nodes to handle the peak channel load, plus some backup nodes for node resiliency.

• Channel placement groups (yellow boxes), which group channels.

• Channels (orange boxes), which are the MediaLive channels running specifically on MediaLive Anywhere nodes.

A cluster is a collection of nodes. The cluster is associated with one or more networks.

Within each cluster, there are nodes, channel placement groups, and channels.

• The cluster contains one or more nodes. In one cluster, all the nodes have identical processing capabilities and identical network interfaces and SDI interfaces. The nodes belong to the one cluster.

• A channel placement group is a collection of channels. The channels belong to the channel placement group.

• You attach a channel placement group to a node in order to run one or more of the channels on that node. The node only processes the channels in the attached channel placement group.

  The nodes are all interchangeable. Any node can encode the channels in any channel placement group in the cluster.

  The channel placement group plays an important role in node failover. When a node fails, MediaLive Anywhere automatically fails over and restarts all the channels in the channel placement group on a backup node.