Rio 2016 Summer Games break streaming records; Azure is ready for Olympic-size livestream events - The Official Microsoft Blog

Much like the athletes who competed in the Rio Olympics, our robust team of Microsoft Azure engineers have been hard at work preparing for the Games since the Sochi Winter Games came to a close in 2014, when NBC Olympics first selected Azure as the cloud-based live encoding, hosting and streaming platform for the Olympics. We’re grateful that NBC Olympics selected us again this year, building on our rich near-decade long partnership – not only do we get the opportunity to play a major role in NBC Olympics’ ability to bring the Games to millions across all devices, including connected TVs for the first time, we get to put Azure to the test – outdoing the scale and reach we’ve previously achieved for the largest sporting event on Earth.



Rio 2016 Summer Games break streaming records; Azure is ready for Olympic-size livestream events - The Official Microsoft Blog