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Media and entertainment on AWS

Live audiences will not wait while your retry queue catches up. Real-time content only scales on a platform built for the spike, not patched after the last one.

Media platforms ship under conditions every other industry calls worst-case: live-event traffic, petabyte archives, AI tagging that has to keep pace with editorial. We build petabyte-scale archive pipelines on Bedrock and Rekognition, run real-time payment platforms at 500 TPS, and modernize transcoding stacks that fail silently. AWS Premier Partner with Migration, GenAI, and AI Services competencies.

What Media actually moves on.

Real engagements, real numbers. Where Armakuni has already shipped in this vertical.

1.2 PB
Archive consolidated onto S3 Intelligent-Tiering
500 TPS
Live-TV payment throughput sustained
4 days
GenAI tagging POC built end-to-end

The four problems most media platforms hit at the same time.

Manual annotation, transcoding failing silently, petabyte storage split across vendors, live-event scale with no rehearsal. We have shipped through all four.

Manual tagging is the ceiling on what the asset library can sell.

Every clip tagged by hand against schema. Content that cannot be annotated cannot be sold. The library is constrained by editorial throughput, not market demand.

Transcoding pipelines failing without alerts.

Database-polled jobs with no event-driven architecture and no signal when they fail. Operations teams find out from contributors and buyers.

Petabyte storage split across vendors.

Archive across on-prem TrueNAS and Azure Blob with no unified metadata layer. Cold-tier decisions made at ingest and rarely revisited. Storage cost decoupled from access pattern.

Live event scale without rehearsal slots.

Telethons, sports finals, breaking-news traffic. The platform either holds or it does not. Engineering discipline is the only buffer.

How Armakuni shows up in Media.

Not every offering applies in this vertical. Here are the ones that fit, and the angle we take with each.

AI Transformation
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Media GenAI is mostly content intelligence. Bedrock for clip extraction, Rekognition for scene detection, Nova for tagging, Titan for taxonomy validation. We build agentic search that turns plain-language buyer queries into multi-criteria searches across the whole archive, no syntax required.

  • Species and behavior detection on 5,000+ hours of footage
  • Long-form video to licensable clip pipeline on Rekognition
  • Getty IPTC taxonomy validation via Titan embeddings
Modernization with AI
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M&E platforms accumulate PHP CodeIgniter, WordPress, and bespoke transcoding stacks. We rebuild on ECS and Aurora, align to SOC 2 Type II from the architecture stage, and design for AWS Marketplace listing as a first-class concern.

  • Legacy PHP and CMS modernization to ECS and Aurora
  • Event-driven transcoding pipeline replacing timer polling
  • AWS Marketplace metering and entitlement integration
Data Engineering
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Petabyte archive consolidation onto S3 Intelligent-Tiering. Vector embeddings in OpenSearch for semantic search. AWS DataSync, Snowball, and CLI tooling matched to the actual data volumes. So storage cost tracks access pattern, not the decision someone made at ingest.

  • TrueNAS and Azure to S3 Intelligent-Tiering migration
  • Vector embeddings in OpenSearch for semantic clip search
  • Cross-region archive consolidation with index preservation
Amazon Connect
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High-volume entertainment contact centres absorb consumer demand spikes. Connect plus Lambda integrations to ticketing and loyalty. Real-time data lookups, agent-receives-context handoffs, and AI-augmented self-service for refund and showtime queries.

  • Cinema and ticketing contact centre on Amazon Connect
  • Self-service refund and gift-card flows with AI assist
  • CRM, ticketing, and loyalty integration via Lambda
Managed Services
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Live-event windows are when the platform earns its budget. 24x7 ownership through telethon, premiere, and final, with WAF, observability, and on-call discipline mapped to the broadcast schedule.

  • AWS WAF protection on consumer-facing platforms
  • Live-event on-call rotations through telethon and premiere
  • CloudFront and origin failover for streaming workloads

Concrete use cases.

Six engagements: shipped, in flight, or scopable inside an AWS-funded discovery.

Use case 01

1.2 PB archive consolidation.

TrueNAS and Azure Blob to S3 Intelligent-Tiering. AWS MAP Lite funding secured in 8 days. Manual lifecycle management eliminated.

Use case 02

GenAI tagging in 4 days.

Rekognition scene detection plus Nova Pro summarization plus Titan IPTC taxonomy validation. Human-in-the-loop review interface.

Use case 03

Wildlife species detection at scale.

10,000 minutes of footage processed through Bedrock Nova for species, behavior, habitat, and technical metadata. Semantic search replacing keyword.

Use case 04

Live-event payment platform.

Real-time donation processing on AWS Lambda and DynamoDB. 500 TPS sustained through televised event windows.

Use case 05

Cinema contact centre on Connect.

Stabilizing a failing Connect deployment one week before go-live. Call routing rebuilt, Lambda integrations rewritten, ServiceNow context delivered before agent pickup.

Use case 06

AI agentic search across the archive.

Buyer queries like "slow-motion lion stalking prey at dusk" parsed for species, behavior, and technical parameters. Semantic plus structured filter results.

Customers we have shipped for.

Named, public references in this vertical. Open the case study for engagement scope, AWS funding, and outcome.

Run a workshop first.

Most engagements open with a fixed-fee, AWS-funded discovery. These three workshops are where it usually starts.

Compliance and audit.

Procurement-grade controls available on request. We run engagements under these regimes routinely.

SOC 2 Type II GDPR CCPA PCI-DSS (for ticketing/donations) WCAG 2.1 AA

Live audiences, archival petabytes, AI tagging that ships in a week.

Your first call is with a solution architect, not a sales exec. The first engagement is usually an AWS-funded assessment.