Media and Entertainment Industry - Incident Detection and Response Alarming Best Practices

Media and Entertainment

Streaming Media

Streaming media workloads transmit audio and video from content publishers to audiences. Streaming media is typically used for one-to-many broadcasts to audiences over HTTP. Streaming Media workloads are often highly critical to the organizations running them (i.e. major broadcasters, large media companies, public events and government) so consideration of the correct alarms is key to successful operations.

Common Streaming Media Workloads:

Live Streaming

Live video streaming is core to many exciting events, news, and interactive experiences. It is used extensively in social media, sporting events, corporate streaming, e-sports, broadcast TV, as well as IoT and security camera applications. AWS provides two live video streaming AWS Solutions to cost-effectively deliver media content to a global audience as part of the AWS Solutions Library. Live Streaming on AWS and Live Streaming on AWS with Amazon S3 are two solutions.

• Reference Architecture for Live Streaming on AWS
• Reference Architecture for Live Streaming on AWS with Amazon S3

Video-on-Demand Streaming

Video-on-Demand (VOD) or file-based streaming is the most common streaming scenario. VOD content is shared by millions of content creators across user-generated content sites, used in the enterprise for training, or used to deliver popular movies and television shows to the home. AWS provides two media solutions to cost-effectively deliver video-on-demand (VOD) content to global audiences using the AWS Cloud. Video on Demand on AWS, and Video on Demand on AWS Foundation both provision the AWS services required to build scalable, distributed VOD processing and delivery workflows.

• Reference Architecture for Video on Demand on AWS Foundation
• Reference Architecture for Video on Demand on AWS

Recommended Metrics to Monitor

We recommend using the below metrics to create and configure alarms based on the above sample architectures and advise to follow the Practices for Observability from the AWS Well-Architected, Operational Excellence Pillar located here.