Item: Amazon Elastic Transcoder
Rating: 9
Author: Dan Davidson

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Amazon Elastic Transcoder in our video delivery pipeline. Amazon transcode helps us with video encoding and delivery of multi-format encodes at an excellent price. It is also much faster than other available options in the market. Elastic Transcoder is great at converting our media files to multiple formats and resolutions.

Pros and Cons

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

Amazon Elastic Transcoder requires a fair amount of setup.

Return on Investment

Amazon Elastic Transcoder is faster and costs less than most competitors

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.

Key Insights

Do you think Amazon Elastic Transcoder delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Amazon Elastic Transcoder's feature set?

Yes

Did Amazon Elastic Transcoder live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Amazon Elastic Transcoder go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Amazon Elastic Transcoder again?

Yes

Other Software Used

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

Likelihood to Recommend

Amazon Elastic Transcoder is very well suited for scripted pipelines and handling media file transcoding. It works in the background and is fast. Large media encodes are handled very well.

Fully featured media encoding fully built into your AWS workflow!

Overall Satisfaction with Amazon Elastic Transcoder