Cloud Media Services
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Extend live sessions with recording, push and pull workflows, transcription, transcoding, and analytics-ready cloud media capabilities.
Cloud Media Services is the capability layer for products that need to do more with live media than simply transport it between participants. This category covers the cloud-side workflows that capture, transform, route, translate, and extend live sessions.
Agora's product map for this layer includes:
- Recording in cloud or local-server form
- Media Push / Pull and RTMP Gateway workflows
- Speech-to-Text / Translation
- Transcoding / Compositing
- Extensions / Analytics and adjacent cloud-side operational services
What this category is good for
This category is the right entry point when you need:
- recording for archive, replay, compliance, or review
- pushing or pulling media between Agora and external streaming systems
- speech transcription or live translation as a cloud-side service
- stream composition, transcoding, and output shaping
- analytics, extensions, and post-session media workflows
The shared requirement is that the media session must continue to create value after, around, or beyond the primary live interaction.
Capability map
Recording
Capture live sessions into replayable and reviewable assets through cloud-managed or self-managed recording paths.
Media Push / Pull
Move media between Agora and external live-streaming or online media systems through push, pull, and gateway workflows.
Speech-to-Text / Translation
Turn live speech into text and translated text for accessibility, AI preprocessing, records, and multilingual products.
Transcoding / Compositing
Reshape streams into layouts, output formats, and distribution-friendly media workflows for playback and broadcast.
Extensions / Analytics
Extend product behavior and add production observation, diagnosis, and ecosystem integrations around the media path.
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Media workflow map
Recording
Speech to Text
Key characteristics
Cloud-side media lifecycle
Handle what happens to live media before, during, and after the user-facing session.
Bridge to downstream systems
Connect live interaction with storage, broadcast delivery, analytics, moderation, and external streaming workflows.
Supports both media and text derivatives
Work with recordings, transformed streams, transcripts, translations, and playback-oriented outputs as one service layer.
Production expansion layer
Add capabilities that teams usually need once a live experience moves beyond prototype stage.
Works across multiple primary products
Reuse the same cloud media services whether the upstream source is RTC, AI interaction, or host-audience live streaming.