Elastic Transcoder is an AWS service that converts media files from an input format to one or more output formats.
Amazon Elastic Transcoder
- No base compute cost: billed per-minute charge while using the service
- Low admin overhead
- Inputs and outputs are stored in S3 buckets.
- A pipeline is a queue for jobs. A job defines an input object and up to 30 output objects/formats.
- Pre-sets contain popular transcoding settings.
- A pipeline can send notifications using SNS.