# AWS Elemental MediaConnect use cases
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This section provides simplified business use cases to help you understand different ways that you can implement AWS Elemental MediaConnect to deliver content to the AWS Cloud and beyond. The use cases in this section are described in general terms, without the mechanics of how you would use the MediaConnect API to achieve the results that you want.

Your MediaConnect implementation is dependent on your use case:
+ For **contribution**, use MediaConnect to ingest content from an on-premises encoder into the AWS Cloud. MediaConnect supports MPEG transport streams, AWS Cloud Digital Interface (CDI), SMPTE 2110 part 22 transports and NDI®. 
+ For **distribution**, use MediaConnect to deliver content to different geographical areas.
+ For **entitlements**, use MediaConnect to share your content with other AWS accounts.
+ For **replication and monitoring**, use MediaConnect to distribute video to multiple destinations and enable the monitoring of multiple video signals in real time.

**Topics**
+ [MediaConnect use case: distributing content](distribute-content.md)
+ [MediaConnect use case: entitlements](use-cases-entitlements.md)
+ [MediaConnect use case: contribution for transport stream flows](use-cases-contribution.md)
+ [MediaConnect use case: contribution for CDI flows](use-cases-cdi.md)
+ [MediaConnect use case: replication and monitoring for CDI flows](use-cases-cdi-replication-monitoring.md)
+ [MediaConnect use case: receiving SRT content from MediaLive](receiving_srt_output_from_medialive.md)