Creating Microsoft Media Services And Storage Account

Introduction

This article is about creating a Microsoft Media Services account and a storage account for it.

About Microsoft Media Services

Microsoft Media Services allows us to share our media content with a good broadcast quality video streaming service so as to reach a larger audience. This has more additional features like enhancement, accessibility, distribution, and scalability. Media Services of Microsoft helps us make our broadcasting even easier and costs less for broadcasting. This Media Services is of REST APIs that will help us to securely upload, store, encode and package the video or audio content with live streaming for all clients using different devices.

Advantages of Microsoft Media Services

1. Scales to all audiences for all sort of audience count.
2. Supports rapidly developing solutions.
3. Supports delivering a high quality experiences.
4. Supports us with easy cost options.
5. Supports all devices.

Requirements

1. Microsoft Azure account.

To work with Media Services, we need the following.

• AMS account
• An Azure Storage account

AMS Account

AMS (Available Media Services) : This gives you access to the set of cloud-based Media Services available in Azure. The Media Service account doesn’t store actual data; instead, it will store the meta data of the content that we have given. The region we select when creating an account is the place where the data center region is located.

Available Regions for AMS

1. North Europe
2. West Europe
3. West US
4. East US
5. Southeast Asia
6. East Asia
7. Japan West
8. Japan East

Azure Storage Account

Storage accounts that we create in our Azure should be in the same region of the Media Services account.

Creating an AMS Account

Step 1

Log into the new Azure Portal.

Go for New - Web + Mobile - Media Services.



Fill in the below fields,

1. Account Name
2. Subscription
3. Resource Group
4. Location
5. Storage Account – Create a new storage account.

For creating storage account

Click on Create New - name your Azure Storage account - set Performance of the account as Standard and replication as “Locally Redundant Storage(LRS)”, followed by clicking on OK.





If you wish, pin the program to the dashboard and click on Create.



Here is our deployment going on for Media Services.



Our Media Services account and Storage account are created now.



Accessing keys for Azure Media Services can be seen here at Account Keys.



You can find the Account name, Primary key and Secondary key over here which you can use for connectivity towards Media Services.

Keynotes in Short

1. About Microsoft Media Services Account.
2. Supporting features of Microsoft Media Services Account.
3. AMS account.
4. Storage Account.
5. Creating a Microsoft Media Service account.
6. Creating a Storage Account.