Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Gary Hertel

Michael Vidyadhar Kale

Saurav Sengupta

Kyle Sletmoe

Kristopher Kosmatka

William Shogren

Rory McCarthy

Ramya Krishnamoorthy

Gregory Kenneth Truax

Greg Kenneth Truax

Adam Ross

Nicolas Weil

Jonathan Rand Hall

Nina Jeong Lane

Vinay Kumar Calastry Ramesh

Shruti Prakash Singh

Alexander Scott Mastrangelo

Arden Rasmussen

Ruochen Han

Yufei Gao

Connor William Mcmonigle

Stephen Abel

Nandan Bharatkumar Badheka

Lucas Langdon Bengtson

Jared James Stewart

Jocelyn Danae Spayd

Liyuan Liu

Marisol Curtis

Michael Kale

Rory Mccarthy

Approaches are disclosed for managing aspects of content delivery in a multi-tenant environment. A request buffer can be used to remove correlations between requests and randomly shuffle requests without storing all the requests concurrently. A shuffle sharding algorithm can be used to randomly allocate a subset of resources to different users in order to ensure less than a maximum risk of one user impacting the use of all resources allocated to other users. In some embodiments, separate fleets of resources can be maintained for manifests and video segments to allow for more accurate scaling and customization. Multiple manifests can also be associated with a single endpoint to allow multiple media players to obtain similar content segments from the single endpoint.

Shuffle-based request buffer for managing large request volumes

A content streaming system and methodology for facilitating the management of content streaming. A video packaging and origination service requests streaming content that is organized according to content segments. Individual content segments will be encoded according to a plurality of encoding profiles and generated by different encoders. The video packaging and origination service utilizes synchronization information provided to the encoders to select individual encoded content segments responsive to the request for streaming content.

Distributed multi-datacenter video packaging system

An apparatus having a device of a user and a computer is disclosed. The computer may be configured to (i) transfer a manifest to the device in response to a viewing session being opened. The manifest generally has a plurality of modified links to a plurality of bitrates of a video content. Each one of the modified links may include an identifier that is unique to the viewing session. The computer may also be configured to (ii) receive a particular one of the modified links from the device, (iii) log a presence of the viewing session, and (iv) generate a request by removing the identifier from the particular modified link.

Unique user session tracking in adaptive bitrate video delivery

A content streaming system and methodology for facilitating the management of content streaming. A video packaging and origination service receives streaming content that is organized according content segments. Individual content segments will be encoded according to a plurality of encoding profiles and received at different ingress nodes within video packaging and origination service. The video packaging and origination service receives requests for streaming content from requesting entities. Sets of encoded content segments are transmitted by egress nodes.

A content streaming system and methodology for facilitating the management of content streaming. A video packaging and origination service requests streaming content that is organized according to content segments. Individual content segments will be encoded according to a plurality of encoding profiles and received at different ingress nodes within video packaging and origination service. The video packaging and origination service utilizes deterministic data generated by the different ingress nodes to determine when receipt of individual content segments is complete.

In an example, a processing device is provided. The processing device may be configured to determine whether to send a first version of a stream manifest corresponding to a received a selection of one of a plurality of stream variants of a video content asset. The processing device may be configured to, in response to determining to not send the first version, send a second different version of the stream manifest. In an example, the first version includes only a subset of a plurality of entries included in the second version and/or a bootstrap current media time that is different than an actual current media time.

Start-over in adaptive streaming

A content streaming system and methodology for facilitating the management of content streaming. A video packaging and origination service receives streaming content that is organized according to content segments. Individual content segments will be encoded according to a plurality of encoding profiles and received at different ingress nodes within video packaging and origination service. The video packaging and origination service receives requests for streaming content from requesting entities. Sets of encoded content segments are transmitted by egress nodes.

A content streaming system and methodology for facilitating the management of content streaming. A video packaging and origination service requests streaming content that is organized according to content segments. Individual content segments will be encoded according to a plurality of encoding profiles and generated by different encoders. The video packaging and origination service utilizes synchronization information provided to the encoders to receive redundant encoded content segments responsive to the request for streaming content. The video packaging and origination service can process the received redundant streams.

Enabling start-over TV in adaptive bitrate delivery

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Gary Hertel