ilearncloud develops e-learning platform for thousands of students with AWS

The Company

Ilearncloud is a company based in the United Kingdom. It is an online learning management platform for learning cloud computing. Ilearncloud offers a wide range of high-quality courses taught by experienced instructors. With ilearncloud, you have the convenience of learning at your own pace and on your own schedule, making it easy to fit education into your busy life.

Solution

Development of a video on demand (VOD) workflow using an encoder in the cloud to convert video content stored in Amazon S3 into new formats for storage, reuse, and delivery using AWS Elemental MediaConvert.
AWS Elemental MediaConvert job to convert an HLS input into HLS, MP4, and Thumbnail outputs. File-based adaptive bitrate and delivery producing video output for different purposes. Created an automated "watchfolder" workflow. Video files added to an S3 bucket automatically trigger a MediaConvert job to run on the uploaded files.

Products

• AWS Elemental MediaConvert
• AWS Lambda
• API Gateway
• Amazon S3
• AWS Step Functions
• AWS Certificate Manager
• AWS Secret Manager
• CloudFront

Business Challenge

Content quality and ensuring that video plays on all mobile and web devices were key considerations in building the ilearncloud platform. For ilearncloud to differentiate itself from other online and mobile education platforms, professional quality and low-latency video experiences for customers were essential.

Working Together

CloudPlexo was the preferred AWS consulting partner to implement the project.

Why Amazon Web Services

AWS was the preferred choice as the world-leading cloud platform for flexibility, elasticity, scale, and cost. CloudPlexo worked with ilearncloud to deliver the e-learning platform, utilizing a range of cloud services, including:

• AWS DynamoDB
• AWS Elemental MediaConvert
• AWS Lambda
• API Gateway
• Amazon S3
• AWS Step Functions
• AWS Certificate Manager
• AWS Secret Manager
• CloudFront

Outcomes

The solution delivered to ilearncloud provides a complete video workflow, including:

• Content ingest into Amazon S3
• Transcoding using AWS Elemental MediaConvert
• Delivery using Amazon CloudFront

With this cloud-based workflow, ilearncloud has been able to focus on delivering compelling e-learning without having to worry about the complexity of building and operating a separate video processing infrastructure. The quality of the content and the interactive components was outstanding.