Case Study: Sanlih E‑Television (SET) achieves 30% cost savings and scalable OTT streaming with Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Sanlih E-Television - Customer Case Study

Sanlih E‑Television is a leading Taiwanese cable TV network reaching about 25% of the national audience across six channels, with a particularly popular drama channel. Facing audience fragmentation from streaming services and a need to expand into online and mobile platforms, the company needed a flexible, scalable platform to deliver multichannel content, collect viewer data, and handle spikes in demand while maintaining high performance and stability.

Sanlih migrated its streaming service, website, and apps to AWS—using CloudFront, EC2 with auto scaling, RDS, DynamoDB, Kinesis, Elasticsearch, EMR, and S3—to enable OTT delivery (launching Vidol), real‑time monitoring, and big‑data analytics. The move improved service stability and deployment speed, enabled deeper viewer insights, and delivered measurable gains: an estimated 30% cost savings versus other cloud providers and about a 50% reduction in management time compared with on‑premises operations.

SanLih E-Television (SET)

Andy Wang

Chief Information Officer