Blackbird Achieves AWS Technology Partner Status
Blackbird has achieved Amazon Web Services (AWS) Technology Partner
status and completed the Foundational Technical Review (FTR) of
Blackbird Edge to accelerate AWS engagement.
The AWS FTR enables
AWS Partners to identify and remediate risks in their products or
solutions. The FTR is led by an AWS Partner Solutions Architect (PSA)
who reviews AWS Partner products and solutions against a specific set of
requirements based around security, reliability and operational
excellence as defined by the AWS Well-Architected Framework. Adhering to
FTR guidelines, Blackbird can review projects against FTR requirements
to select best practices to follow ensuring the best possible client
experience.
As an AWS Technology Partner, Blackbird offers any
company creating video at scale, access to rapid, efficient cloud
content production. Browser based Blackbird is a fast, powerful
browser-based professional cloud native video editing platform that
provides instant access to video content for the easy creation of clips,
highlights and long form content for rapid publishing to multiple
channels.
Blackbird enables remote production, removing the need
to travel to a facility or event and also eliminates the need to
transit material to and from multiple local storage environments. Proven
to reduce carbon emissions by up to 91% compared to traditional video
editing workflows, Blackbird also reduces infrastructure costs by up to
75% due to its cloud native architecture.
Blackbird plc CEO, Ian
McDonough, said: “We are very happy to have achieved the AWS
Foundational Technical Review. Replicating and enhancing the
genre-defining Blackbird cloud video experience in a public cloud has
been a stated ambition of ours for some time. AWS have been very
supportive and enabled us to get to this first significant step. This
milestone is significant as fast-tracked progress through the AWS
Partner Network will allow us to scale much more flexibly for our
customers which is key, whilst opening up the addressable market for
Blackbird significantly.”