Amazon Elastic Transcoder vs. Public Cloud

Public Cloud

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting 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
Public Cloud	Score 9.1 out of 10	N/A	N/A	N/A

Pricing

Amazon Elastic Transcoder

Public Cloud

Editions & Modules

Audio Only: $0.0045
per minute
Less than 720p: $0.015
per minute
720p and above: $0.03
per minute

No answers on this topic

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Amazon Elastic Transcoder	Public Cloud
Free Trial
Yes	No
Free/Freemium Version
Yes	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

Amazon 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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Community Pulse
	Amazon Elastic Transcoder	Public Cloud

Features

Amazon Elastic Transcoder

Public Cloud

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 11% above category average	Public Cloud - Ratings
Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime	10.02 Ratings	00 Ratings
Dynamic scaling	10.02 Ratings	00 Ratings
Elastic load balancing	9.53 Ratings	00 Ratings
Pre-configured templates	9.03 Ratings	00 Ratings
Monitoring tools	9.53 Ratings	00 Ratings
Pre-defined machine images	8.02 Ratings	00 Ratings
Operating system support	9.03 Ratings	00 Ratings
Security controls	8.03 Ratings	00 Ratings
Automation	9.52 Ratings	00 Ratings

Cloud Management

Comparison of Cloud Management features of Product A and Product B
	Amazon Elastic Transcoder - Ratings	Public Cloud 8.6 1 Ratings 2% below category average
Cloud Management Security	00 Ratings	9.11 Ratings
Automation and Orchestration	00 Ratings	7.31 Ratings
Cost Management	00 Ratings	9.11 Ratings
Cloud Management Performance Monitoring	00 Ratings	8.21 Ratings
Governance and Compliance	00 Ratings	8.21 Ratings
Resource Management	00 Ratings	9.11 Ratings
Systems Integration	00 Ratings	9.11 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	Amazon Elastic Transcoder	Public Cloud
Small Businesses	DigitalOcean Droplets Score 9.4 out of 10	VMware Cloud Director Score 8.5 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	SAP on IBM Cloud Score 9.0 out of 10	IBM Turbonomic Score 8.8 out of 10
Enterprises	SAP on IBM Cloud Score 9.0 out of 10	vRealize Operations (discontinued) Score 9.1 out of 10
All Alternatives	View all alternatives	View all alternatives

User Ratings
	Amazon Elastic Transcoder	Public Cloud
Likelihood to Recommend	8.5 (3 ratings)	9.1 (1 ratings)
Support Rating	8.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Amazon Elastic Transcoder	Public Cloud
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 Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Infomaniak Network Best suited for environments where there are standard processes and no scope for customization and not suitable for industries where the business processes are dynamic and prone to changes frequently. Also, where the users are already experienced or users of SAP would help to easily help to adopt the cloud approach. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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. Incentivized Abhinav Neela Senior Software Engineer Read full review	Infomaniak Network Scalability Cost Savings Increased Flexibility Improved Safety Ease of Data migration with the help of migration cockpit Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	Amazon AWS Amazon Elastic Transcoder requires a fair amount of setup. Incentivized Dan Davidson Software Engineer Technical Lead Read full review	Infomaniak Network Additional processes Better UI Access Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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 Incentivized Dan Davidson Software Engineer Technical Lead Read full review	Infomaniak Network No answers on this topic
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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Infomaniak Network Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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 Incentivized Abhinav Neela Senior Software Engineer Read full review	Infomaniak Network Less infrastructure Quick and easy Post-go-live maintenance Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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