If you’re creating media today, you’re juggling more pressure than ever: tight deadlines, dispersed teams, unpredictable workloads, media scattered across locations, and the need to pivot quickly without burning through budget.
We hear these challenges every single day, and we built FLEX to solve them.
What Is FLEX?
FLEX is EditShare’s suite of powerful cloud-based media production solutions built on AWS. It gives creative teams everything needed for cloud editing, collaboration, storage, media management, and archiving, all without re-building your workflow from scratch.
For over a decade, EditShare has helped media professionals create outstanding content with collaborative storage and asset management. FLEX extends that expertise to cloud workflows, letting you scale, adapt, and collaborate from anywhere.
Why FLEX Exists
Teams aren’t moving to the cloud because it’s trendy. They’re moving because they need:
- Remote collaboration without delays
- On-demand scalability that aligns with production schedules
- An OPEX-based business model instead of big upfront infrastructure spend
- Reliable, secure access to media from any location
- Freedom to use their preferred editing tools
The problem? Building cloud workflows on your own is complicated.
Fragmented tools, disconnected services, and unpredictable performance quickly become time-consuming and expensive.
FLEX removes that complexity, giving you turn-key, cloud-native workflows that are powerful, flexible, and simple to operate.
FLEX at a Glance
Remote Collaboration, Anywhere
Work with editors, producers, colorists, and VFX teams no matter where they live. FLEX supports both full-resolution and proxy workflows, synchronized through AWS and accessible securely via VPN.
Scale to Match Your Production Calendar
Whether you’re a one-team boutique or an enterprise running multiple concurrent projects, FLEX lets you increase or reduce compute, storage, and workstations as needed, without stranded costs.
Work With the Tools You Already Love
No vendor lock-in. FLEX supports all leading NLEs, Avid Media Composer, Adobe Premiere Pro, and DaVinci Resolve, both on cloud and on-premises.
OPEX Instead of CAPEX
No more multi-year infrastructure purchases. FLEX lets you align spend with usage.
FLEX Is More Than Cloud Storage. It’s a Complete Production Environment
FLEX + AWS = Best-of-Breed Architecture
By running FLEX inside your own secure AWS account, you get:
- Full operational visibility and budget control
- The ability to leverage existing AWS discounts
- Security posture that meets internal IT/infosec requirements
- Zero SaaS multi-tenant risk
This isn’t “shared cloud.” It’s your cloud, your security, your control.
FLOW: The PAM Engine Behind FLEX
At the heart of FLEX is FLOW, EditShare’s powerful PAM built specifically for production workflows.
FLOW gives you:
- Ingest, manage, organize, automate, and share assets
- Tight NLE integrations
- Instant productivity, no special training required
- Open APIs for custom integration when needed
- Intelligent, controlled collaboration environments
Your team can start editing on day one.
Smart, Software-Defined Layering on AWS
FLEX includes EditShare’s software-defined storage, which intelligently uses AWS tiers for performance and cost efficiency.
Benefits:
- Collaborative shared storage optimized for video workloads
- Dynamic balancing between performance and cost tiers
- Simple deployment as a single node or a clustered setup
- Optional N+1 resiliency for higher availability
Whether you’re five creators or 500, FLEX delivers what your team needs.
Built for Your Journey to the Cloud
FLEX deployment options
FLEX Cloud Edit
A complete post-production environment in AWS with virtual workstations optimized for NLEs. Ideal for scaling capacity or connecting distributed teams.
FLEX Cloud Edit+
A turnkey, pre-integrated solution that adds:
- Accelerated file upload from local sites to your AWS environment
- Seamless management of virtual workstations
- Visibility into cloud usage and spend
This reduces setup effort while giving teams powerful oversight and cost control.
A Better Answer to Archive
If you’re not ready to do full cloud production, FLEX Cloud Sync still delivers immediate ROI.
It gives you:
- Easy backup to AWS S3
- Rapid retrieval into on-prem workflows
- Increased resiliency without LTO tape headaches
- Lower long-term storage costs
Tape workflows are slow and operationally heavy. Cloud Sync replaces that burden with a fast, economical, reliable archive.
Remote Workflows Built-In, Not Bolted-On
FLEX supports remote access to full-res or proxy media whether content is stored:
- Entirely in AWS
- On-premises
- Or a hybrid of both
Teams can truly collaborate, not just pass files around.
Why Customers Choose FLEX
- They want cloud workflows — without cloud headaches.
- They want flexibility — without rebuilding everything.
- They want security — without giving up control.
- And most of all, they want to create great content — without being burdened by infrastructure.
FLEX delivers all of that.
Ready to See FLEX in Action?
Whether you’re exploring cloud editing, migrating archives, scaling teams, or just tired of “make it work” workflows, FLEX gives you a reliable, best-of-breed path forward.
We’d love to walk you through options that match your workflow today and where you want to go next.
