A fully managed, ASIC-accelerated pipeline to ingest, encode, protect and deliver video at scale — VoD and Live. 100% hosted on OVHcloud. Sovereign by design.
Media companies, e-learning platforms and broadcasters don't "upload a video". They transcode thousands of hours, package for every device, and run live events at scale. Today they build that on US hyperscalers or fragile DIY stacks. There is no sovereign, managed alternative — until now.
A modern video workload means ingest, transcode, package, store and deliver — orchestrated, monitored and billed. That's an infrastructure problem, and it's growing ~20% a year.
Teams assemble FFmpeg on raw VMs: no SLA, no monitoring, no video-aware billing, constant maintenance. It works until it has to scale — then it breaks, or leaks revenue to AWS.
NIS2, GDPR and sector rules in health, public sector and defence push European organisations toward EU-based infrastructure. US clouds can't credibly answer that.
No sovereign European cloud offers a managed video pipeline today. The capability and the hardware already exist inside OVHcloud — the quadrant is empty, and first mover wins.
Call one API. Your video is ingested, encoded across resolutions, packaged for every player, protected, stored and delivered — without touching a server.
RTMP live ingest or MP4 upload, with resumable transfer.
Adaptive SD/HD/4K. CPU-managed, or ASIC-accelerated.
HLS / DASH packaging with optional multi-DRM.
Durable OVHcloud Object Storage, EU regions.
OVHcloud CDN, adaptive bitrate to any device.
Let us run the whole pipeline, or assemble it brick by brick. For the most demanding encoders, reserve dedicated ASIC hardware.
Send a file or a stream, get back ready-to-play video. We handle encoding profiles, packaging, storage and delivery. Zero infrastructure to operate.
Want control? Call individual bricks — just encode, just package, just store — and set your own transcoding params, quality and resolutions. Orchestrate your way.
Reserve dedicated ASIC encoding cards for predictable, high-volume workloads. Hardware acceleration no hyperscaler exposes to its customers.
Whether you publish a catalogue or run a live event, the same managed pipeline scales with you.
Push thousands of hours; we encode adaptive ladders automatically.
HLS & DASH output, ready for web, mobile and TV players.
Assets live in OVHcloud Object Storage, EU jurisdiction only.
Point any standard encoder at our endpoint and go live.
Low-latency adaptive HLS/DASH for desktop and mobile.
Built for live sports, town halls and product launches.
Premium content needs protection. Media Services integrates studio-grade DRM so you can secure — and monetise — every stream, without bolting on a third-party stack yourself.
One integration covers every major device and browser.
Stop piracy and enforce licensing on high-value VoD and live.
DRM is the foundation of SVOD, rentals and gated content.
Encrypted packaging, license delivery and key rotation handled inside the pipeline — turn it on per asset or per channel.
OVHcloud already operates dedicated ASIC encoding cards in its European data centres. We're putting that silicon to work — purpose-built chips that crush video encoding far faster than general-purpose CPUs.
Encode far more streams per rack-unit, at lower energy per minute.
Reserved capacity in OVHcloud DCs — not shared, not offshore.
Flat reserved pricing for high-volume broadcast and live workloads.
Directional comparison — exact gains depend on codec and profile, characterised during the technical proof phase.
Every brick — ingest, encode, storage, delivery — runs on OVHcloud infrastructure under EU law. No CLOUD Act exposure. For regulated sectors, that's not a feature, it's a requirement.
Where we win, where we match, and where we deliberately don't compete. We'd rather be clear than oversell.
| Capability | AWS Elemental | OVHcloud Media Services |
|---|---|---|
| EU data sovereignty | ✕ CLOUD Act jurisdiction | ✓ EU law only |
| Dedicated ASIC encoding | ✕ Shared CPU / GPU | ✓ Dedicated cards available |
| Multi-DRM protection | ✓ Full stack | ✓ Widevine / FairPlay / PlayReady |
| Pricing model | ~ Complex, multi-line | ✓ Simple PAYG + flat capacity |
| VoD transcoding | ✓ Mature | ✓ Managed pipeline |
| Live streaming | ✓ MediaLive | ✓ RTMP → HLS/DASH |
| Global CDN (outside EU) | ✓ CloudFront global | ~ Strong in EU, partner option beyond |
We don't try to be everything. Global multi-region CDN and ad-insertion aren't our focus today — sovereign, managed, hardware-accelerated video for European builders is.
From broadcasters to hospitals, the same sovereign pipeline adapts to very different needs.
SVOD, live sports and broadcasters with high encode volume and EU sovereignty needs — price-sensitive vs AWS.
Health, defence and public sector under GDPR / NIS2 mandates — where US clouds simply can't serve credibly.
Video-heavy, cost-sensitive platforms where sovereignty is a clear differentiator for public and corporate buyers.
The 300K sites already on OVHcloud that have outgrown simple embeds and need Live, API access and volume.
Order it from the Public Cloud catalogue, manage it in the OVHcloud Manager, automate it with the API and Terraform. Billed pay-as-you-go, alongside the rest of your project.
Region: GRA (Gravelines, FR) · Pay-as-you-go
Illustrative mockup — product direction, not a released interface.
No bundles, no surprise egress tiers. Pay-as-you-go like the rest of OVHcloud Public Cloud — or reserve hardware when volume makes it worth it.
The whole pipeline as a metered service. Start free, scale without commitment.
Run individual bricks and orchestrate your own pipeline on PCI compute.
Dedicated ASIC encoding cards, Bare Metal-style. For predictable high volume.
Indicative pricing model shown — final rates are being set with transparency against the market. ASIC capacity and DRM are quoted per project.
Sovereign, managed, hardware-accelerated video infrastructure — without leaving the cloud you already trust.