When AWS Elemental first unveiled its Media Services product series, we described the new MediaPackage service as looking like a special instance of the old Elemental Delta origin server, due to its emphasis on just in time packaging for adaptive bit rate (ABR) delivery. Of course, the long-term AWS strategy was infinitely more complex, and now some 18 months later the next evolution of MediaPackage sees it support on-demand content – in doing so becoming an even more formidable weapon. It means AWS MediaPackage customers can now package and encrypt live and file-based video to multiple distribution formats, so that ABR content can be ingested into MediaPackage VoD packaging groups – for viewing a single ABR on smartphones, tablets, PCs,…