AWS Elemental MediaStore Amazon S3 & Amazon CloudFront (MediaStore Migration)
Scalable cloud object storage and low-latency content delivery network (CDN) architecture serving as the origin and distribution layer for live and on-demand streaming media.
Naming timeline
- AWS Elemental MediaStore
Launched as a media-optimized storage and origin service providing low-latency read-after-write consistency for live streaming video; AWS announced its discontinuation on November 12, 2024.
- Amazon S3 & Amazon CloudFront (MediaStore Migration)Current name
AWS Elemental MediaStore was retired on November 13, 2025, with live video origination consolidated onto Amazon S3, Amazon CloudFront, and AWS Elemental MediaPackage.
What replaced AWS Elemental MediaStore?
AWS Elemental MediaStore has been superseded by Amazon S3 & Amazon CloudFront (MediaStore Migration), with the latest change on 13 November 2025 (AWS Elemental MediaStore End of Support). Scalable cloud object storage and low-latency content delivery network (CDN) architecture serving as the origin and distribution layer for live and on-demand streaming media. The underlying legacy API or CLI surface is deprecated, so a technical migration is required.
Also known as
- Elemental MediaStore
- AWS Elemental MediaPackage
Technical identifiers
Legacy identifiers deprecated. The underlying API or CLI surface for the legacy name is officially deprecated, so this change requires a technical migration rather than a label update.
| AWS Service APIs / SDKs | s3 cloudfront mediapackagev2 mediastore mediastore-data |
|---|---|
| AWS CLI Commands | aws s3api aws cloudfront aws mediapackagev2 aws mediastore aws mediastore-data |
| IAM Actions & Policies | s3:* cloudfront:* mediapackagev2:* mediastore:* |
| Terraform Resources (aws_*) | aws_s3_bucket aws_cloudfront_distribution aws_media_packagev2_channel_group aws_media_store_container aws_media_store_container_policy |
The legacy 'mediastore' and 'mediastore-data' APIs, CLI commands, 'mediastore:*' IAM actions, and 'aws_media_store_container' Terraform resources were retired on November 13, 2025 in favor of Amazon S3, Amazon CloudFront, and AWS Elemental MediaPackage.
Notes & disambiguation
- On November 12, 2024, AWS announced the discontinuation of AWS Elemental MediaStore effective November 13, 2025, citing Amazon S3's strong read-after-write consistency (added in 2020), improved tail latency, and lower cost for live video origination.
- Support for AWS Elemental MediaStore ended on November 13, 2025, after which MediaStore containers and data plane endpoints ceased operating.
- AWS directs simple live streaming origin workloads to Amazon S3 fronted by Amazon CloudFront, and advanced just-in-time packaging or DRM workflows to AWS Elemental MediaPackage.
Sources & official documentation
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