“Building a media solution that encodes and streams video to various devices and clients is a complex task,” blogged Microsoft’s Scott Guthrie this week. “It requires hardware and software that has to be connected, configured, and maintained. Windows Azure Media Services makes this problem much easier by eliminating the need to provision and manage your own custom infrastructure,” he added.
Used last year by several broadcasters to stream the London 2012 Olympics, Windows Azure Media Services is now live in production, and Guthrie’s blog introduced it in great depth.