With less than three months until Azure Media Services (AMS) is euthanized at the end of June 2024, the race is on for select technology vendors to migrate as many customers as possible from Microsoft’s video processing suite to their own encoding environments. One of these, Bitmovin, is now claiming an advantage in this goldrush, with a source telling Faultline that Bitmovin is the only company selected to extend the AMS customer transition period by 12 months. Claims of an exclusive extension have riled rival MediaKind, as the official “featured partner” in the AMS retirement guide, with Bitmovin now billing itself as the “exclusive vendor” providing free and automatic migration of existing file-based video content. This implies that, after the…