Build 2018: What’s new in Azure video processing and video AI

John DeutscherEncoding, Media, Media Services, Microsoft AzureLeave a Comment

Developers and media companies trust and rely on Azure Media Services to build applications to encode, protect, analyze and deliver video at scale. This week, at the Build 2018 conference in Seattle, I was happy to announce a major new API version for Azure Media Services, along with new developer focused features, and updates to Video Indexer. Media processing at scale: Public preview of the new Azure Media Services API (v3) Starting at Build 2018, developers can begin working with … Read More

How Azure Media Services Earned CDSA Security Certification

John DeutscherCloud, Media, Microsoft Azure, StandardLeave a Comment

Yesterday, I announced how extremely proud I am that Azure Media Services has recently been awarded certification by a CDSA-appointed external auditor. We are the only media platform in the market that has achieved CDSA certification on our encoding platform services. The CPS certification provides a standards-based method of assuring our customers – and yours – that the intellectual property rights of media assets stored, encoded, managed, and distributed from within Azure are safe and secure. Further, if you build … Read More

Azure Media Services: First Cloud Media Service Awarded Certification by CDSA

John DeutscherCloud, Media, Media Services, Microsoft Azure, StandardLeave a Comment

After many years of work building out the services and compliance procedures to meet our initial goal of a “security first” architecture for our platform, I am extremely proud to announce that Microsoft Azure Media Services has been awarded certification by a CDSA-appointed external auditor. This initial certification status is valid for six months, after which further successful on-site audits will extend the certification for one-year periods. Azure Media Services is committed to continuing the CDSA audits, as well as … Read More

New Azure Media Services Blogs

John DeutscherIIS Media Services, Media, Media Services, Microsoft Azure, Standard1 Comment

I’ve been very busy traveling to the International Broadcaster’s Convention (IBC) in Amsterdam and delivering two fantastic Microsoft Media Platform Summits in both Amsterdam and Prague. Now that I’m back in the office again, it’s time to get back to updating folks on what is new and upcoming in Windows Azure Media Services this Fall and into next year. We have been in Preview release for about 4 months now across 6 data centers and things are going amazingly well. … Read More