As of June 30th, 2024, Azure Media Services will be retired. We are pleased to offer you the opportunity to transition seamlessly to Bitmovin Streams via the Azure Marketplace.

Bitmovin Streams will continue to serve your existing content library from Azure Blob Storage for a limited period until June 30th, 2025. The monthly fee for this service will be $110 USD per Origin Service, and billing will occur directly through the Azure Marketplace. Please note that you will need a separate Bitmovin account for each Azure Media Services streaming endpoint that you plan to migrate. You may cancel your monthly subscription through the Azure dashboard, with cancellations taking effect at the end of each month.

To retain the existing streaming URLs, you will need to use Azure CDN on the streaming endpoint and you will see CDN charges from Azure in lieu of outbound network charges if it was not enabled before the migration

During this transition period, you will be required to re-transcode your existing content using a Bitmovin Streams or Bitmovin VOD Encoding, or use the Azure Media Migration tool to re-package. After June 30th, 2025, any content not re-transcoded (or re-packaged) will no longer be available for streaming to end users.

As a part of the Bitmovin Streams service, you will have access to Bitmovin's standard product portfolio on a Pay-As-You-Go basis, including VOD Encoding, Live Encoding, Player, and Analytics, for new content processing at any time.