Media Services
Azure services for premium video workflows
- Studio-grade encoding at cloud scale
- One player for all of your playback needs
- Greater discoverability and accessibility of media through media intelligence
- Content protection and encryption delivered by AES and PlayReady
- On-demand and live video streaming with integrated Content Delivery Network capabilities
- Broad ecosystem of value-added partners
Start sharing your media content
Azure Media Services gives you broadcast-quality video streaming services to reach larger audiences on today’s most popular mobile devices. Media Services enhances accessibility, distribution, and scalability, and makes it easy and cost-effective to stream content to your local and worldwide audiences—all while protecting your content. Learn how to deliver content to customers.
Stream broadcast and OTT video
Build your online audience and extend your reach by distributing your content to your customers on their smart phones, tablets, and other digital devices. Take advantage of current events or niche markets by bringing new channels to market quickly and encoding over-the-top (OTT) video to multiple formats.
Broadcast and over-the-top streaming use cases
- TV everywhere
- Linear programming
- Catch-up TV
- Video on demand (VOD)
Benefits
- Scale to all audience sizes
- Rapidly develop solutions
- Support virtually all devices
- Deliver high-quality experiences
- Save with flexible cost options
Customers using Media Services for broadcast
Stream sports and live events
Having handled large events such as the FIFA World Cup and the Olympic Games, Media Services is a proven and reliable live event streaming service, which manages costs and reduces the complexity of streaming live events across a range of devices—from smartphones to Internet-connected TVs. Learn how to work with channels that are enabled to perform live encoding.
Live streaming use cases
- Live sports
- Concerts
- Breaking news
- House of worship broadcasts
Benefits
- Scale to all audience sizes
- Quickly develop solutions
- Support virtually any device
- Use flexible workflows
- Save with pay-as-you-go pricing
- Seamlessly integrate with Content Delivery Network
Customers using Media Services for live events
Deliver corporate content
Reach your employees and customers anywhere on any device in a highly-secure, scalable way. Make your corporate communications, training, and knowledge sharing more accessible by combining Media Services with easy-to-use solutions, including Skype Meeting Broadcast, Office 365 Video, or customizable solutions from our partners. Learn how to manage all of your content using Azure Classic Portal.
Corporate content streaming use cases
- Corporate communication
- Training
- Knowledge sharing platform
- Videos on your company website
- Live conferences, webinars, and events
Benefits
- Help secure content
- Get enterprise scale
- Efficiently deliver across screens
- Gain flexibility, maintain control
- Rely on high uptime
Customers using Media Services
Media Services partners
Deliver government content
Use Media Services and Microsoft Azure Government to deliver security-enhanced video streaming to your customers on mobile devices. Enhance accessibility to important documents by indexing media files with Azure Media Indexer. With a physical and logical network-isolated instance of Azure, as well as end-to-end encryption, Azure Government helps you ensure security and compliance for government agencies.
Government content streaming use cases
- Town hall events
- City council meetings
- Public safety
- Dashboard and body cameras
- Video analytics
- Court transcriptions
Benefits
- Rely on a Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS)–compliant solution
- Depend on a physical and logical network-isolated instance of Azure
- Meet a broad range of strict compliance requirements
- Encrypt media end-to-end
- Help secure live event streaming with archiving and cloud DVR
- Get advanced encryption and digital rights management support
Trusted to meet government demands
Media Services is available on Azure Government—designed to meet complex and critical requirements for US federal, Department of Defense (DoD), state, and local government agencies. Some of the certifications we have include FedRAMP certification, Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) certification, support to enable IRS 1075 compliance, and the ability to issue Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Business Associate Agreements. Azure Government is a CJIS–capable platform, which means that we work directly with states to sign state-level CJIS information agreements and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) CJIS security addendums.
How Fuji Television Network uses Media Services
"For our NEXTsmart product to be successful we need to deliver our content to the devices where our consumers want to consume it. Fuji TV is using Azure Media Services for 24x7 delivery of three linear channels and the cross platform reach it provides has created new audiences for our services.”
Katsuya Seki, Technical Producer
Fuji Television Network, Inc.
Real Madrid brings the stadium closer to 450 million fans around the globe, with Azure Media Services
Israeli government turns to Microsoft Azure
By choosing Azure, government officials are saving hundreds of thousands of dollars in hardware and maintenance costs.
How Media Services fuel the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
JPL uses Media Indexer, part of the Azure Media Services, for a space-age solution that turns spoken words into textual data for faster searches.
Rio 2016 Summer Games break streaming records; Azure is ready for Olympic-size livestream events
Capabilities
Media Analytics
Speech and vision services at enterprise scale, with security, compliance, and global reach
Resources
Service updates