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Azure Media Services v2 (GA)Concepts

Azure Media Services v2 (GA) Concepts  This topic gives an overview of the most important Media Services concepts. INTRODUCTION Microsoft Azure Media Services is an extensible cloud-based platform that enables developers to build scalable media management and delivery applications. Media Services is  based on REST APIs that enable you to securely upload, store, encode and package video  or audio content for both on-demand and live streaming delivery to various clients  ( for example, TV, PC, and mobile devices) .  Microsoft's efforts to improve the company's cloud platform, Windows Azure, most definitely do not fly under the radar. Over the past few months the software giant brought Windows Azure Services to Windows Server 2012, introduced a plethora of new features for its cloud platform, updated the Windows Azure SDK for .NET and, recently, announced the general availability of Windows Azure Media Services. Windows Azure Media Services is basically a Media Platform as a Ser