By TVN Staff | May 7, 2021 | 2:00 p.m. ET. Bitmovin, a provider of online streaming video technology, announced today Bitmovin Cloud Connect, a new offering that enables over-the-top (OTT) content providers working on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Azure platforms to deploy Bitmovin’s encoding solution in their existing cloud. Bitmovin Cloud Connect is a new offering that may be used simultaneously with the company’s Bitmovin Managed Cloud. The company says the combination of these two services provides developers with more flexibility and added failover capabilities. While Bitmovin’s Managed Cloud service provides a state-of-the-art development environment for integrating Bitmovin’s encoding capabilities, companies already using a cloud provider may find it advantageous — and in many cases, a requirement — to work within their current provider’s environment. For those customers, Bitmovin Cloud Connect offers a vendor-agnostic service that allows them to stay in one secure environment and encode where their content already resides. Bitmovin Cloud Connect enables customers to: