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Cloud-native redundancy

Powering seamless, always-on broadcast experiences

In an era where a single outage can disrupt service for millions of viewers, redundancy is no longer a contingency plan; it is foundational infrastructure design. Recent large-scale cloud outages affecting major platforms have underscored how quickly the absence of resilient architecture can translate into lost revenue, breached SLAs, and reputational damage.

We break down how redundancy principles apply across the broadcast value chain, with particular focus on automation and playout — the real-time core of channel origination, where there is little to no recovery window if systems fail.

Key takeaways include:

  • How redundancy differs across the media supply path, automation and playout, and distribution — and why playout demands the highest standard of resilience
  • The five foundational principles of redundancy: power, infrastructure, software, network, and data
  • A comparison of on-premise versus cloud-native approaches to redundancy across every infrastructure component
  • How Amagi's six-tier redundancy framework, built on AWS, spans a single Availability Zone through Beyond Multi-Region configurations
  • SLA benchmarks, estimated downtime, and cost trade-offs for each redundancy tier
  • A practical framework for selecting the right level of redundancy based on business impact, service criticality, recovery requirements, and budget

 

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