Elemental

Elemental (Elemental Technologies) was a Portland, Oregon video encoding and multiscreen delivery company founded in 2006 and backed by General Catalyst. Its software powered large over-the-top and broadcast video providers before Amazon Web Services acquired the company in 2015. The business now operates as the AWS Elemental brand within AWS Media Services, spanning cloud services (MediaConvert, MediaLive, MediaPackage, MediaConnect, MediaStore, MediaTailor) and on-premises appliances and software (Elemental Live, Elemental Server, Elemental Conductor, Elemental Statmux, Elemental Link). Elemental no longer operates an independent developer portal; its API surface is delivered through AWS SDKs and the AWS Elemental documentation. This profile was surfaced as a General Catalyst portfolio company; the investment exited via acquisition.

Elemental is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Video, Video Encoding, Media Services, and Streaming.

Elemental’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, engineering blog, and 1 more developer resources.

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8.8/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-21 · rubric v0.12.0

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Company Video Video EncodingMedia ServicesStreaming Transcoding Broadcast Acquired

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Composite quality — 8.8/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 3.8 / 20

Access Clarity 0.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13

Contract Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 5.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

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Resources

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Source (apis.yml)

aid: elemental
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/elemental.png
name: Elemental
description: Elemental (Elemental Technologies) was a Portland, Oregon video encoding and multiscreen delivery company founded
  in 2006 and backed by General Catalyst. Its software powered large over-the-top and broadcast video providers before Amazon
  Web Services acquired the company in 2015. The business now operates as the AWS Elemental brand within AWS Media Services,
  spanning cloud services (MediaConvert, MediaLive, MediaPackage, MediaConnect, MediaStore, MediaTailor) and on-premises appliances
  and software (Elemental Live, Elemental Server, Elemental Conductor, Elemental Statmux, Elemental Link). Elemental no longer
  operates an independent developer portal; its API surface is delivered through AWS SDKs and the AWS Elemental documentation.
  This profile was surfaced as a General Catalyst portfolio company; the investment exited via acquisition.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/elemental/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- general-catalyst
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
x-status: acquired
x-acquired-by: amazon-web-services
x-acquired-year: 2015
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
tags:
- Company
- Video
- Video Encoding
- Media Services
- Streaming
- Transcoding
- Broadcast
- AWS
- Acquired
apis: []
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://aws.amazon.com/media-services/elemental
  name: AWS Elemental (elemental.com redirects here)
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elemental-appliances-software/latest/ug/
  name: AWS Elemental Appliances and Software User Guide
- type: APIReference
  url: https://d1.awsstatic.com/awselemental/api-userguide/Live_API-User-Guide.pdf
  name: Elemental Live REST API and User Guide
- type: Blog
  url: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/media/
  name: AWS Media & Entertainment Blog
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence

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