Automating the Chaos of Live Community Events with AWS and Remotion

Community livestreams and game days often require a surprising amount of manual operational work. Overlays, lower thirds, scoreboards, participant information, sponsor sections, and winners announcements are frequently updated live by hand across multiple disconnected tools.

In this session, we will show how we built an open-source stream automation platform using Remotion, Kiro, and AWS serverless services to turn livestream production into a programmable workflow. We will demonstrate how event metadata, meetup schedules, participant information, and live leaderboard updates can automatically generate stream overlays, transitions, lower thirds, leaderboard interactions, and dynamic winners reveal sequences.

The platform combines AWS Lambda, Step Functions, EventBridge, S3, CloudFront, and Cognito with AI services such as Amazon Rekognition for face detection and automated speaker recognition, as well as Amazon Bedrock for configuration and metadata generation. We will also explore how distributed Remotion rendering on Lambda enables scalable real-time stream production for large community events.