Azure Media Services will be retired by June 30, 2024 – read our migration guide for all you need to know.
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Maximize your content’s potential and deliver an unparalleled viewer experience directly from the Azure Marketplace. By leveraging Bitmovin’s partnership with Microsoft Azure, you’re joining the countless businesses benefitting from cost-effective video streaming solutions, effortless video workflows and superior video encoding for both live and on-demand content.
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Streams
Our end-to-end streaming solution, deliver the highest quality live and on-demand video streaming experience to audiences globally across any device. Get started on Azure in minutes by uploading and hosting your video or connecting a live stream.
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VOD Encoding
Deliver an exceptional quality of experience and exceed your audience’s expectations with our Next-Generation VOD Encoder. Includes multi-codec streaming (now with AV1), Per-Title and Per-Shot optimizations, along with 8K and multi-HDR support.
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Live Encoding
Built upon the award winning file-based Bitmovin VOD Encoder, the Live Encoder is a resilient live video streaming software platform that takes RTMP, SRT or Zixi inputs and outputs to HLS and DASH for delivery to digital streaming services.
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End-to-end video streaming
Get up and running in minutes direct from your Azure Console with Streams; the end-to-end video on-demand and live event streaming solution from Bitmovin. Using Streams, you can effortlessly upload, ingest, and host your content in Azure, and leave the rest to us. Once your content is in our platform, the cutting-edge Bitmovin Encoder takes over, automatically compressing your video for playback across the broadest range of devices, providing you with multiple embedding options for every app experience.
Industry leading technology
Ensure an ideal viewer experience every time with our industry-leading encoding technology. Whether your viewers are in low connectivity environments or using the latest high performance devices, our intelligently optimized adaptive bitrate renditions (ABR) guarantee seamless viewing across the broadest range of mobile, web, smart and connected TV devices on the market.
Efficiency at scale and reduced costs
Benefit from Bitmovin’s ten years of deep streaming industry expertise and say goodbye to manual configuration and guesswork. Our best-of-breed on-demand and live video encoders identify and apply all the necessary parameters and optimizations to your content automatically. You’re not only saving valuable time but also reducing your cloud compute, storage and CDN distribution costs; this means your videos are available in the highest quality while efficiently managing streaming expenses.
Azure Media Services migration guide
In July 2023 Microsoft announced that Azure Media Services (AMS) would be retired by June 30, 2024 – if you are an existing AMS customer, it’s critical that you transition your workflows to a Microsoft partner before this date to avoid any disruptions to service. As an Azure partner solution, recommended by Microsoft, Streams is perfectly placed to make the transition away from AMS as quick and as painless as possible. With no need to reprocess or migrate your content away from Azure, you can get started in minutes by signing up directly on the Azure Marketplace.
With no waiting lists or lengthy forms to complete you can start the process today with just a few clicks.
Our recommended ISV partners
Prevent disruptions and plan for a smooth migration by working with one of our recommended ISV partners. Both have teams of highly skilled developers ready to transition you away from AMS with minimal time investment.
