Nagra has taken its forensic watermarking technology deeper down the AWS rabbit hole, with its NexGuard product completing the AWS Foundational Technical Review (FTR). There are some distinctions to made from Nagra’s integration deal with AWS’s encoding rival Harmonic, inked in summer 2021. Initially, it looked as if the latest announcement was not about embedding watermarks into AWS Elemental encoders. In fact, AWS Elemental is not mentioned at all the press release. However, a Nagra representative since explained to Faultline that Nagra watermarks are embedded into AWS Elemental encoders, in a similar manner to Harmonic’s. “But beyond the integration of Nagra watermarks into AWS Elemental encoders, there is also the CDN side of the solution, with the most efficient edge-computing AWS CloudFront…