Azure Media Services Video Indexer Azure AI Video Indexer
Legacy names Azure Media Services Video Indexer, Azure Video Analyzer for Media
Cloud and edge multimodal video and audio analytics service that extracts transcriptions, translations, faces, objects, scenes, and generative AI summaries from media files and live streams.
Naming timeline
- Azure Media Services Video Indexer
Launched as an AI media indexing capability coupled with Azure Media Services.
- Azure Video Analyzer for Media
Temporarily renamed to Azure Video Analyzer for Media under the Azure Video Analyzer umbrella.
- Azure AI Video IndexerCurrent name
Rebranded to Azure AI Video Indexer on the standalone Microsoft.VideoIndexer/accounts ARM resource provider.
What is Azure Media Services Video Indexer called now?
Azure Media Services Video Indexer is now called Azure AI Video Indexer, with the latest change on 18 July 2023 (Azure AI Rebrand & Standalone ARM Provider). Earlier names covered by this entry also include Azure Video Analyzer for Media. Cloud and edge multimodal video and audio analytics service that extracts transcriptions, translations, faces, objects, scenes, and generative AI summaries from media files and live streams. Only the customer-facing name changed; the underlying technical identifiers remain backward compatible.
Also known as
- Azure Video Indexer
- Video Indexer enabled by Azure Arc
Technical identifiers
Technical identifiers unchanged. Only the customer-facing product name changed; the APIs, CLI commands, IAM roles and Terraform resources below keep their legacy identifiers for backward compatibility.
| ARM Resource Providers (Microsoft.*) | Microsoft.VideoIndexer/accounts api.videoindexer.ai |
|---|---|
| Azure CLI (az) / PowerShell | az resource create --resource-type Microsoft.VideoIndexer/accounts |
| Entra ID / Azure RBAC Roles | Contributor Reader Cognitive Services User |
| Terraform Resources (azurerm_*) | azapi_resource (Microsoft.VideoIndexer/accounts) |
ARM accounts now provision directly under Microsoft.VideoIndexer/accounts decoupled from the retired Microsoft.Media provider.
Notes & disambiguation
- Originally launched in 2017 as Azure Media Services Video Indexer, the service was renamed to Azure Video Analyzer for Media at Microsoft Build in May 2021 alongside the preview edge service Azure Video Analyzer.
- Following the retirement announcement of the preview Azure Video Analyzer edge service in 2022, the media indexing service reverted to Azure Video Indexer and was subsequently rebranded to Azure AI Video Indexer in 2023.
- Ahead of the June 30, 2024 retirement of Azure Media Services, Azure AI Video Indexer migrated onto its own dedicated ARM resource provider (Microsoft.VideoIndexer/accounts) and added edge support via Video Indexer enabled by Azure Arc.
Sources & official documentation
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