Amazon Elastic Transcoder vs. Google Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Amazon Elastic Transcoder
Score 8.5 out of 10
N/A
The Amazon Elastic Transcoder from AWS is a cloud-based media transcoding service available to AWS users which is priced on the volume of media transcoded by minute and the media's resolution. The service is scalable and anticipates transcoding of very large files or high volumes of files.
$0
per minute
Google Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
Google Cloud Virtual Private Cloud has a network of 27 regions and 200+ countries and territories, boasting little to no downtime for its users. It is automatically configured or can be done by the user and allows you to bring your own IP addresses to reduce downtime caused by migration.
$0
based on services that process ingress traffic: Load Balancers, Cloud NAT, Protocol forwarding.
Pricing
Amazon Elastic TranscoderGoogle Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
Editions & Modules
Audio Only
$0.0045
per minute
Less than 720p
$0.015
per minute
720p and above
$0.03
per minute
egress traffic
$0 - 0.15
per GB
ingress traffic
$0
based on services that process ingress traffic: Load Balancers, Cloud NAT, Protocol forwarding.
Premium Tier (egress rates)
$0- $0.23
per month per GB of data delivered
Standard Tier (egress rates)
$0.045, $0.065, $0.085
per month per GB of data delivered: 150-500TB, 10-150TB, 0-10TB
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Amazon Elastic TranscoderGoogle Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsAmazon Elastic Transcoder offers a monthly free usage tier. The free tier consists of: 20 minutes of free audio-only output per month, 20 minutes of free SD output per month and 10 minutes of free HD output per month. Once you exceed the number of minutes in this free usage tier, you will be charged at the prevailing rates.
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Features
Amazon Elastic TranscoderGoogle Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of Product A and Product B
Amazon Elastic Transcoder
9.2
Ratings
13% above category average
Google Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
-
Ratings
Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Dynamic scaling10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Elastic load balancing9.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Pre-configured templates9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Monitoring tools9.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Pre-defined machine images8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Operating system support9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Security controls8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Automation9.50 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
Amazon Elastic TranscoderGoogle Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
Likelihood to Recommend
8.5
(0 ratings)
8.4
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
8.0
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Amazon Elastic TranscoderGoogle Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
Likelihood to Recommend
If your entire stack is in AWS. Amazon Elastic Transcoder is easier to integrate into your workflow. As input and output files can be in S3. You can get notifications when your job is complete. If you want real-time transcoding it is not possible with this service.
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Well-suited scenarios: 1. Large Organisations with more than at least a thousand employees. 2. Teams spanning across multiple countries or regions. 3. Research institutes require privacy and confidentiality. 4. Educational institutes to separate departments from various attacks. Less appropriate scenarios: 1. Startups have less than 100 employees. 2. Users are accessing resources from the same place.
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Pros
  • converting and playing audio and video files on the go
  • cloud capability
  • speed and reliability
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  • Serverless connector helps Cloud Run services to communicate privately.
  • Serverless connector supports auto scaling.
  • Being serverless, the cost is based on usage for serverless connector.
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Cons
  • Cannot transcode videos in real time
  • The quality of transcoded videos is average. There are other services that provide better quality output.
  • Slow AWS support
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  • Google Cloud VPC support for Oracle Databases is still the lagging point. Improvement in that front is need of the hour
  • Google Cloud VPC still needs to work on Technical customer services.
  • Google still not among the first to launch new services which makes the customers to choose other Cloud solution providers.
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Usability
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VPC is a difficult concept to grasp and recommendations for configuring it would be helpful in educating the users to make the right choice while using the product in configuring networking for their cloud deployments. Also, the user interface can be intuitively designed so as to suggest templates to perform common configurations with regard to VPC.
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Support Rating
Support for Amazon Elastic Transcoder is the same as any other service within AWS. If you are familiar with AWS, it is easy to start using Elastic Transcoder
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Alternatives Considered
Amazon Elastic Transcoder is in a league of its own when compared to other alternatives in the market. The most noticeable competitor would be either Microsoft or Adobe or Google. When I had a chance to compare Azure products and Amazon products, the difference is obvious and the experience provided by both the products are very different in terms of user experience and interaction with the application. The cost and availability also were taken into consideration when choosing between the two shortlisted choices. So we went with Amazon's product as it is widely used and has support and maintenance which is basically better than the competition.
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On Cloud storage, Google Cloud VPC has an edge over the rest of the service providers. Also, Google Cloud VPC is the ideal choice for AI/ML and data analytics because of Google's reputation in these fields. Google Cloud VPC, on the other hand, provides a secure private network, despite the fact that there is no trace of the public network on it. Google Cloud VPC services are also less expensive than those offered by other cloud service providers.
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Return on Investment
  • Amazon Elastic Transcoder is faster and costs less than most competitors
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  • It did solve a lot of issues regarding accessibility from different geographical zones.
  • Since the cost is lower, we did save a lot in comparison with the on-site deployments.
  • Although we had to train a few people, we were easily to able to get work done quickly after that.
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ScreenShots

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