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AWS • VIDEO STREAMING

Building an OTT Platform with AWS MediaConvert and HLS

Explore how an OTT application can combine a frontend, backend, database, Amazon S3, SQS, Lambda, AWS MediaConvert, EventBridge, and CloudFront to process and deliver video content.

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OTT Video Processing Architecture

Upload Source video in S3
SQS + Lambda Trigger video processing
MediaConvert Transcode into HLS
EventBridge Receive job status events
Database Store status and playlist URL
CloudFront Deliver HLS playback content

Processing and playback overview. The database tracks video records, MediaConvert job IDs, processing status, and playlist URLs. Ad content can be processed as a separate video type.

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DATA ENGINEERING

Building an ETL Pipeline with AWS Glue & Athena

Follow a practical data engineering workflow, from application data stored in Amazon S3 to cataloged datasets queried with Athena.

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AWS

Building an OTT Platform with AWS MediaConvert

Video transcoding, HLS playlists, asynchronous processing, and content delivery with AWS services.

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DATA ENGINEERING

Building an ETL Pipeline with AWS Glue & Athena

From raw data in S3 to structured datasets and serverless SQL analytics.

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CLOUD ARCHITECTURE

Designing Event-Driven AWS Workflows

Understanding how queues, serverless functions, and events can coordinate asynchronous workloads.

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