AWS Elemental, formerly known as Elemental Technologies, is a Portland, Oregon-based software company owned by Amazon Web Services that specializes in multiscreen video. Founded in August 2006, Elemental creates software for encoding, decoding, transcoding. AWS Elemental provides cloud services that allow customers to create video workflows. AWS Media Services includes the following individual services:
- AWS Elemental MediaConvert transcodes file-based video content.
- AWS Elemental MediaLive encodes live video.
- AWS Elemental MediaPackage prepares and secures live video streams for delivery to devices with different profiles.
- AWS Elemental MediaStore offers video from media-optimized archives.
- AWS Elemental MediaTailor inserts targeted advertising into video streaming.
