# Getting started with AWS Elemental MediaConnect
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AWS Elemental MediaConnect supports two ways to move live video: **flows**, which ingest, replicate, and share live video streams, and the **MediaConnect router**, which dynamically routes live video between independent inputs and outputs in real time. The following tutorials show you how to get started with each.

**Topics**
+ [Getting started with flows](getting-started-flows.md)
+ [Getting started with the router](getting-started-router.md)
+ [Related resources](getting-started-related-resources.md)