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Amazon Elastic Transcoder

Score8.5 out of 10

4 Reviews and Ratings

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What is Amazon Elastic Transcoder?

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.

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Key Features

Learn about the best (and worst!) features Amazon Elastic Transcoder has to offer, as determined by TrustRadius' reviewers.
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Top Performing Features

  • Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime

    The service uptime as a percentage defined in the SLA

    Category average: 8.6

  • Dynamic scaling

    Ease of scaling up or down in response to customer needs

    Category average: 8.2

  • Elastic load balancing

    Automatic balancing and distribution of resources across multiple virtual computers

    Category average: 8.5

Areas for Improvement

  • Operating system support

    Range of operating systems available as pre-configured images

    Category average: 7.9

  • Pre-defined machine images

    Range of different server configurations available

    Category average: 7.8

  • Security controls

    Compliance with security protocols like SSL and AES

    Category average: 8.1

Reviews

What users are saying about Amazon Elastic Transcoder.
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Easy To Integrate With This Service if You Are Already on AWS Stack

Incentivized
Abhinav NeelaView profile
Senior Software Engineer in Engineering at Amazon (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Amazon Elastic Transcoder to convert customer videos between different formats.

Pros

  • Works at scale, you can can transcode a high number of videos at the same time.
  • Supports a good number of formats.
  • Good integration with AWS S3 and other AWS Services.

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

Return on Investment

  • Less time for integration with this service if you are already in AWS stack
  • No real time transcoding is a negative

Fully featured media encoding fully built into your AWS workflow!

Incentivized
Dan DavidsonView profile
Software Engineer Technical Lead in Research & Development at Pluralsight (1001-5000 employees employees)

Pros

  • Converting between media file types
  • Generating Presets for common jobs
  • Tracking Encoding Jobs
  • Queueing and notifications

Cons

  • Amazon Elastic Transcoder requires a fair amount of setup.

Return on Investment

  • Amazon Elastic Transcoder is faster and costs less than most competitors

Other Software Used

Planview LeanKit, Adobe Experience Manager, Adobe Illustrator CC, Adobe Analytics

Amazon: A to Z as they portray, elastic and fantastic!

Incentivized
Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology (5001-10,000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

The transcoder has been a very useful infrastructure in transitioning from using several different video players and converting tools to view and play the videos. Basically, freshers were told to record and put up the most important aspect of being a software engineer and there were various formats of the videos and it was very cumbersome to sort and filter based on the file format. This is where Amazon Elastic Transcoder came into the picture and literally saved a lot of time and effort that is productively used elsewhere.

Pros

  • converting and playing audio and video files on the go
  • cloud capability
  • speed and reliability

Cons

  • The UI/UX can be made a little better, if not redone
  • The animations could be put in place to engage the users
  • some tutorial would help for beginners

Return on Investment

  • Very Positive in terms of time saving
  • Automation of mundane tasks is a plus
  • fast processing compared other alternatives

Alternatives Considered

Azure AI (Cortana)

Other Software Used

Azure AI (Cortana), Pega Customer Service, Appian