Amazon Elastic Transcoder vs. Amazon FSx

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
Amazon FSx
Score 8.5 out of 10
N/A
Amazon FSx is a cloud storage service designed to make it easy and cost effective to launch, run, and scale feature-rich, high-performance file systems in the cloud. It supports a range of workloads boasting reliability, security, scalability, and broad set of capabilities. As a fully managed service, it handles hardware provisioning, patching, and backups, and supports four widely-used file systems: NetApp ONTAP, OpenZFS, Windows File Server, and Lustre.N/A
Pricing
Amazon Elastic TranscoderAmazon FSx
Editions & Modules
Audio Only
$0.0045
per minute
Less than 720p
$0.015
per minute
720p and above
$0.03
per minute
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Amazon Elastic TranscoderAmazon FSx
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
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 TranscoderAmazon FSx
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of Product A and Product B
Amazon Elastic Transcoder
9.2
3 Ratings
13% above category average
Amazon FSx
-
Ratings
Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Dynamic scaling10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Elastic load balancing9.53 Ratings00 Ratings
Pre-configured templates9.03 Ratings00 Ratings
Monitoring tools9.53 Ratings00 Ratings
Pre-defined machine images8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Operating system support9.03 Ratings00 Ratings
Security controls8.03 Ratings00 Ratings
Automation9.52 Ratings00 Ratings
File Sharing & Management
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Amazon Elastic Transcoder
-
Ratings
Amazon FSx
8.0
1 Ratings
5% below category average
Versioning00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Video files00 Ratings6.01 Ratings
Audio files00 Ratings6.01 Ratings
Document collaboration00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Access control00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
File search00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Device sync00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Cloud Storage Security & Administration
Comparison of Cloud Storage Security & Administration features of Product A and Product B
Amazon Elastic Transcoder
-
Ratings
Amazon FSx
10.0
1 Ratings
15% above category average
User and role management00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
File organization00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Device management00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Cloud Storage Platform
Comparison of Cloud Storage Platform features of Product A and Product B
Amazon Elastic Transcoder
-
Ratings
Amazon FSx
10.0
1 Ratings
16% above category average
Performance00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Reliability00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Storage Reports00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
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User Ratings
Amazon Elastic TranscoderAmazon FSx
Likelihood to Recommend
8.5
(3 ratings)
9.9
(2 ratings)
Support Rating
8.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Amazon Elastic TranscoderAmazon FSx
Likelihood to Recommend
Amazon AWS
It is well suited in a large setting where people use different file formats and various apps to record and transfer their audio or video files across devices. In such scenarios, the transcoder would of real help to eliminate the hassle of converting the files into desired formats for viewing or doing some other analysis.
The transcoder would not be of much use if all the files have the same format and does not need any conversion from their source file formats. It would prove costly and not useful if it's just an additional step that is of no particular use
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Amazon AWS
- For any enterprise-grade storage, this is the best option. - EDA workloads are very strong with Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP and NetApp's FlexCache technologies. - Random read workloads such as OLTP are awesome on Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP. - File Services are the best in class on FSxN. - DR sites from ONTAP on-premises are amazing.
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Pros
Amazon AWS
  • 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.
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Amazon AWS
  • Enterprise grade unified storage in the cloud
  • Multiprotocol access
  • PV for EKS
  • Data mobility
  • Data security
  • Integration with NetApp Cloud Manager
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Cons
Amazon AWS
  • Amazon Elastic Transcoder requires a fair amount of setup.
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Amazon AWS
  • Data Protection from AWS console
  • Advance Matrix
  • FlexGroups creating as part of AWS console
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Support Rating
Amazon AWS
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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Amazon AWS
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Alternatives Considered
Amazon AWS
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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Amazon AWS
I have not worked with other reliable and powerful platform that is as reliable as this product. This platform has given us room to concentrate on more productive activities leaving our data under a safe system. It automates file transfer and saves time in uploading documents across all team members. It interlinks all our applications systems to enhance teamwork and increase production.
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Return on Investment
Amazon AWS
  • Less time for integration with this service if you are already in AWS stack
  • No real time transcoding is a negative
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Amazon AWS
  • It improved our TCO by optimizing storage costs between SSDs and S3
  • It speeded our TTM with speedy deployment and orchestration
  • It removed needed expertise from our engineers
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