# AWS Elemental MediaStore Reviews **Vendor:** Amazon Web Services (AWS) **Category:** [Other Video Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/other-video) **Average Rating:** 4.1/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 16 ## About AWS Elemental MediaStore AWS Elemental MediaStore is an AWS storage service optimized for media. It gives you the performance, consistency, and low latency required to deliver live streaming video content. AWS Elemental MediaStore acts as the origin store in your video workflow. Its high performance capabilities meet the needs of the most demanding media delivery workloads, combined with long-term, cost-effective storage. ## AWS Elemental MediaStore Reviews ### 1. My Experience **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Lang L. | COO, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 16, 2023 **What do you like best about AWS Elemental MediaStore?** We use AWS Elemental MediaStore to use it as a media server for our live interview calls, this helps us gain and build our own media bandwidth which helps us to streamline interviewing process living live streaming server. **What do you dislike about AWS Elemental MediaStore?** AWS Elemental MediaStore currently doesn't support adding K8 EC2 cluster which helps us to balance the server load better & streamline the process instead of having more cluster of EC2 servers running concurrently. **What problems is AWS Elemental MediaStore solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use AWS Elemental MediaStore to save and stream the media content which comes from our live interview sessions, this helps us to save clips and media recordings which helps us to streamline KPI within the team & helps us get a larger understanding & increase productivity. ### 2. My Experience **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Joyce L. | Business Development Lead, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 14, 2023 **What do you like best about AWS Elemental MediaStore?** We use AWS Elemental MediaStore for our video calling-based application, which helps to facilitate video calls better & Moreover, it's cheaper than other services. **What do you dislike about AWS Elemental MediaStore?** AWS Elemental MediaStore currently cannot be clubbed together in a k8 formation which makes it a little harder to work with because of code issues & compatibility problems, moreover, servers are sometimes experiencing heavy load due to which latency decreases and we have jitters in our video. **What problems is AWS Elemental MediaStore solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use AWS Elemental MediaStore for streaming and recording video conversations during an interview, Moreover, it helps us to facilitate anti-cheating measures to better increase productivity and stream quality, Using this we have seen noticeable KPI growth & better results. ### 3. I use AWS services for one of my project **Rating:** 2.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Talha K. | Associate Manager Global Solutions, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 05, 2023 **What do you like best about AWS Elemental MediaStore?** The most attractive altribute of AWS is you can easy get the conectivity through any location easy to reach and very tested and mature product **What do you dislike about AWS Elemental MediaStore?** somethime I feel the cost of many product is quite high as compare with other plateforms **What problems is AWS Elemental MediaStore solving and how is that benefiting you?** before using AWS my webcontact usualy take soo long and csutomer complain regarding dificuities in loading my contant ### 4. My Experience **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 21, 2023 **What do you like best about AWS Elemental MediaStore?** We use AWS Elemental MediaStore as a streaming server for our recorded & live interviews and meetings. Using this gives us the capability to store & retain videos in large quick storage servers, Moreover, it's very cheap to set up as compared to its competitors & has competitive pricing. **What do you dislike about AWS Elemental MediaStore?** The learning curve to set up can be challenging using node.js versions since we need a custom command and three cluster-based EC2 servers to share the delivery load and to add data redundancy. **What problems is AWS Elemental MediaStore solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use AWS Elemental MediaStore for storing our video and interview files, which act as a backup for our data. Moreover, we can retrieve any media-based file, which has dramatically increased our efficiency and storage capability using K8-cluster-based EC2, which also is competitively priced, and cheaper. ### 5. AWS Elemental Mediastore for stream HD videos efficiently **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Damnik Mahendrakumar J. | Software Engineer II, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 28, 2022 **What do you like best about AWS Elemental MediaStore?** AWS Elemental Mediastore streams long videos at superfast speed via segments, which can also be accessed in EC2 instances. It also gives good geographic location optimisation via CloudFront CDN network, which offers a lag-free experience. OpenCV machine learning models can access the training media at high speed, thus reducing training time. **What do you dislike about AWS Elemental MediaStore?** AWS Elemental Mediastore uses media encoding and thus needs time to process the whole media file. Though it is excellent and superfast, it's pocket heavy. If not appropriately restricted, the user can upload tons of content. **What problems is AWS Elemental MediaStore solving and how is that benefiting you?** I needed to stream media on the landing page, and we used AWS Elemental Mediastore. First, it's efficient and can handle a high load. Also, once the file is cached across the major CDNs, the file can stream in no time. The website renders the video smoothly with no lag. ### 6. The experience is good and I recommend it to all CTOs and freelancers with a multimedia strategy. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alberto B. | Web developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 19, 2022 **What do you like best about AWS Elemental MediaStore?** We are a small company and we place great importance on the flexibility and cost savings in infrastructure that all AWS services have provided us, especially for our online video strategy. **What do you dislike about AWS Elemental MediaStore?** The learning curve is not as fast as we would like. The implementation of this service in clients without cloud management experience is a bit slower than it should be. It is a minor problem that takes little time to solve. **What problems is AWS Elemental MediaStore solving and how is that benefiting you?** For a small, and even medium-sized company, it is very costly in terms of time and money to create their own storage and streaming infrastructure. AWS allows us to hire exactly what we need and they take care of having the engineers and technicians to manage the network. We save a lot of time and especially €€€ and $$$. ### 7. AWS does it again on the Cloud Front **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mark S. | Director, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 08, 2022 **What do you like best about AWS Elemental MediaStore?** This package is good for large scale multinationaln companies engaged in global advertising strategies where I have witnessed it. I like the easy api interface and AWS cloud integration. I think it should marketed to worldwide sports ppv platfoms where it would be utilised to its full caperbility **What do you dislike about AWS Elemental MediaStore?** It's a costly enterprise system. As with all AWS products a knowledge of scripting is required. **What problems is AWS Elemental MediaStore solving and how is that benefiting you?** Global marketing initiatives where team members of the marketing department can easily coordinate with each other. This results in higher productivity accross the board. ### 8. D365 is very useful and easy to handle **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Komal D. | Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 16, 2022 **What do you like best about AWS Elemental MediaStore?** easy to understand and useful anyone can learn easily **What do you dislike about AWS Elemental MediaStore?** It is little slow while using and it takes little more time to loading **What problems is AWS Elemental MediaStore solving and how is that benefiting you?** easy accessible ### 9. AWS Elemental MediaStore **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** David G. | Microsoft Dynamics D365 SCM Support Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 21, 2022 **What do you like best about AWS Elemental MediaStore?** I like its optimized storage service no leg really **What do you dislike about AWS Elemental MediaStore?** No comments towards dislike since its been up to standards **What problems is AWS Elemental MediaStore solving and how is that benefiting you?** Storage performance and low to none downtime ### 10. A very suitable and quite practical service. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Marta F. | Freelance Marketing Consultant, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 17, 2022 **What do you like best about AWS Elemental MediaStore?** The connection to go live is very simple. In two clicks, you're on the air! **What do you dislike about AWS Elemental MediaStore?** There are many possibilities, so sometimes it can get a bit complex. **What problems is AWS Elemental MediaStore solving and how is that benefiting you?** Resolve the connection very well to stream live in a simple and quite lightweight way. ### 11. Reviewing MediaStore **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 01, 2022 **What do you like best about AWS Elemental MediaStore?** It's a storage service for media and which is really a better option than using S3 in all the cases. Its features like Consistent, low latency reads, writes, and updates are outstanding. **What do you dislike about AWS Elemental MediaStore?** It is a costly service to use. It needs expert-level engineers to handle the setup which again adds up to the upfront cost. Small/medium level organizations cannot afford this huge cost just for the storage. **What problems is AWS Elemental MediaStore solving and how is that benefiting you?** mostly storage problem is resolved because storing large media files can be hectic. also retrieving those files with low latency becomes challenging. With AWS Elemental MediaStore all such problems are resolved. ### 12. Excellent **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Erica C. | AE, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 23, 2022 **What do you like best about AWS Elemental MediaStore?** AWS Connection and integration with the hole **What do you dislike about AWS Elemental MediaStore?** Elemental for the ecosystem but powerful **What problems is AWS Elemental MediaStore solving and how is that benefiting you?** Storage for every video ### 13. Excellent **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 21, 2022 **What do you like best about AWS Elemental MediaStore?** Applications for sharing and stay in line **What do you dislike about AWS Elemental MediaStore?** Storage for all the videos that we need for **What problems is AWS Elemental MediaStore solving and how is that benefiting you?** Storage about videos and flexibility ### 14. Great Ecosystem for cloud media services **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 26, 2019 **What do you like best about AWS Elemental MediaStore?** Great ecosystem with integration with other AWS Media Services **What do you dislike about AWS Elemental MediaStore?** Not available in Singapore. As most of the media services is available in Singapore except this one **What problems is AWS Elemental MediaStore solving and how is that benefiting you?** End to end workflow for live media streaming from capture, storage to delivery. ### 15. Sometimes buggy but mostly works like a charm **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 26, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Elemental MediaStore?** It has very low latency compared to other media stores and its very fast access and there is no buffering if the downlink is good **What do you dislike about AWS Elemental MediaStore?** It has to go through more iterations in my perspective. there are a lot of problems like API integration issues and more implementation problems that come in the way sometimes **Recommendations to others considering AWS Elemental MediaStore:** Media store must make their products more usable and reach out more customer base so the scale offset the cost of the product. I think they must reduce the cost of the product considerably to hit mass markets **What problems is AWS Elemental MediaStore solving and how is that benefiting you?** Media store offsets a lot of work. which is usually needed in a streaming service. It is mostly one touch and fast integration and with very sophisticated customer service from amazon its a smooth experience ### 16. Efficient video streaming **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Textiles | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 26, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Elemental MediaStore?** User friendly uploading process that is efficient and delivers videos that are professional grade quality. It makes our small company feel like they have a chance competing with the videos that other large companies produce. **What do you dislike about AWS Elemental MediaStore?** When initially using the program there was some lag time and buffering issues. I also wish the tutorials had been more helpful. **Recommendations to others considering AWS Elemental MediaStore:** use the trial time to work out any issues before implementing the system completely. we did and were able to slowly have departments of the company use it and were able to help teach each other. **What problems is AWS Elemental MediaStore solving and how is that benefiting you?** we are now able to deliver the videos to our clientele faster, clearer and more affordably. We are able to produce videos that enhance our companies image. ## AWS Elemental MediaStore Discussions - [What is AWS Elemental MediaStore used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-aws-elemental-mediastore-used-for) - [View AWS Elemental MediaStore pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/aws-elemental-mediastore/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-31+06%3A06%3A14+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=251e6f97-4092-45e9-8fc2-a09199583fed&secure%5Btoken%5D=9b53429d9ec94d7ae82427ed3e9b49c65d88b4eb57664e7cacb2c4ffdeed8230&format=llm_user) ## Top AWS Elemental MediaStore Alternatives - [VideoLan](https://www.g2.com/products/videolan/reviews) - 4.7/5.0 (625 reviews) - [Konvey](https://www.g2.com/products/jerry-nweke-konvey/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (160 reviews) - [Handbrake](https://www.g2.com/products/handbrake/reviews) - 4.7/5.0 (153 reviews)