Microsoft Azure Cloud Computing streaming video service platform online

Microsoft Windows Azure Media Services local time Tuesday officially online (Tencent technology map) Tencent Science and Technology (Shanhui) Beijing time January 24 news, according to foreign media reports, Microsoft Windows Azure Media Services local time Tuesday officially online, continue to expand the cloud computing product line. Organizations can leverage Windows Azure Media services to provide streaming video services without having to build their own infrastructure. "Windows Azure Media Services can be used to release training videos to employees, play videos from the web, and develop streaming video services similar to Hulu or Netflix," said Scott Gosri Scott Guthrie, Microsoft executive. Like many cloud computing service platform offerings, Windows Azure Media Services is designed to make it easier for customers to launch streaming video services. Gosri says the development of a media publishing platform that can encode video, distribute video to a variety of devices and clients is a complex task, and Windows Azure Media Services makes it easier for customers to complete this work. With Windows Azure Media Services, businesses can publish video content to laptops, tablets, smartphones, consoles, and televisions. Developers can take advantage of the rest API (Application programming Interface),. NET and Java SDK (Development Toolkit) to automate the uploading, encoding, and publishing of video. The Azure Web site also provides documentation to help developers. According to Gosri, Microsoft is also testing a version of Windows Azure Media services that provides live streaming video service. The Windows Azure Media Services encoding feature is priced at $1.99 per GB of data, and customers with large amounts of data can enjoy discounted prices. When traffic is small, customers need to pay for storage and bandwidth costs, and more resources are available when the user increases.