How Synamedia delivers an optimized on-demand viewing experience with Cloud DVR on AWS

This article discusses how Synamedia, a video technology provider, delivers an optimized on-demand viewing experience for cloud DVR (cDVR) services using AWS. It covers the challenges of traditional DVR and cloud DVR solutions, and how Synamedia addresses them using Amazon S3 and other AWS services.

Specifically, the article covers:

• Challenges with traditional DVR and on-premises cloud DVR solutions, such as limited storage capacity, high maintenance costs, and hardware refresh cycles.
• How Synamedia's Common Copy cDVR v2.0 technology leverages Amazon S3 storage classes (Standard Infrequent Access and Glacier Instant Retrieval) to optimize costs based on access patterns.
• Synamedia's concatenation buffer algorithm that reduces the number of requests to Amazon S3, improving performance and reducing costs.
• The AWS architecture used by Synamedia, which includes Amazon EKS, Amazon S3, and other AWS services, for deploying and managing the cDVR solution.
• The business impact and cost savings achieved by Synamedia's cDVR solution on AWS for a customer deployment.