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Media Services Video Analyzer retirement and migration

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Warning

Azure Media Services will be retired June 30th, 2024. For more information, see the AMS Retirement Guide.

This article discusses Media Services Video Analyzer retirement and migration.

Overview

Important

As Microsoft’s Responsible AI Standards outlines, Microsoft is committed to fairness, privacy, security, and transparency with respect to AI systems. To align with these standards, Azure Media Services is retiring the Video Analyzer preset on September 14, 2023. This preset currently allows you to extract multiple video and audio insights from a video file. Customers can replace their current workflows using the more advanced feature set offered by Azure Video Indexer.

Comparison between current vs new replacement

Video Indexer provides an enhanced list of supported features that the Media Services preset does not support. The following table details the differences. For more information, see Comparison of Azure Video Indexer and Azure Media Services v3 presets.

Feature Azure Video Indexer APIs Video Analyzer Preset in Media Services v3 APIs
Media Insights Enhanced Fundamentals
Experiences See the full list of supported features: Overview Returns video insights only
Billing Media Services pricing is the same Media Services pricing is the same
Free Trial East US Not available
Region availability See Cognitive Services availability by region Note that this is fewer regions than AMS, so this is a region reduction currently See Media Services availability by region.

Migration steps

Refer to the following documents by Video Indexer on how to index videos:

Microsoft Q&A

If you have further questions, please go to Microsoft Q&A, the community support channel to get answers to technical questions.

Get help and support

You can contact Media Services with questions or follow our updates by one of the following methods: