By now you have likely heard the term “Data Lake” but have you ever heard of a “Media Lake”?

Do you have a ton of video, audio, and or/images spread across multiple storage buckets?

Do you wish you had a single unified interface so your team can search and extract useful actionable data from all those videos, images and audio files?

If so then you should consider implementing a “Media Lake”. Similar to a Data Lake it stores/indexes data at scale but instead of just your standard DB records and event data it stores/indexes binary media.

If you want an example of a "Guidance" (A fancy term for CloudFormation scripts and a bit of code) then check out this repo:

https://github.com/aws-solutions-library-samples/guidance-for-medialake-on-aws

This is a good starting template for how you could go about building a Media Lake but there is no “one size fits all” solution and this template does come with every bell and whistle feature you could imagine.

Personally I would likely widdle this down to the essentials and design something custom to my clients specifications and existing technologies.

It should be noted that the above example supports both S3 Vector DBs and OpenSearch ,both of which will allow for complex embeddings, meaning you can search and extract complex patterns.

Question for you:

What are you using to manage your Media Lake?