Introduction to Amazon Elastic Transcoder: high-performance cloud-based media transcoding with a description of new features and example usage scenarios.

1. What’s New With Amazon Elastic
Transcoder
Speaker Name
Amazon Web Services

2. Agenda
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What is Amazon Elastic Transcoder?
Why use Amazon Elastic Transcoder?
Block diagram
Key features
New features
Feature backlog
Resources
Q&A

3. Amazon Elastic Transcoder:
Video Transcoding as a Managed Service
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Easy-to-use
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Cost Effective
– Management console
– No minimums, no commitments
– API and SDKs
– Simple per minute pricing
– Pre-defined transcoding presets
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Scalable
– Designed from the outset to scale
– Transcoding Pipelines for parallel
transcoding
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Managed
– Codecs, processing and licensing
baked into service offering

4. Why Customers Use Amazon Elastic Transcoder
• Increase volume of content
– Just send jobs to Elastic Transcoder
• No need to build for peak
– Just send jobs to Elastic Transcoder
• Increasing number of output renditions for
different devices
– Just create transcoding presets and send jobs to
Elastic Transcoder

5. “It’s amazing. It really is simple and really works quickly and well.”
James Morton-Haworth, Co-founder
GRAMAFILM

6. “I’m happy with the service and glad it was available since it made it
easy for me to satisfy our transcoding requirements. I am always
skeptical of a new service but this one ran flawlessly.”
David Conrad, Application Architect
Elsevier

8. Block Diagram
Transcoding Pipeline 1
Amazon S3
Output Bucket
Amazon S3
Input Bucket
Transcoding Pipeline 2
Amazon S3
Output Bucket
Amazon S3
Input Bucket
Transcoding Pipeline 4
Amazon S3
Output Bucket
720p
Transcoding Job n
Kindle Fire HD
Transcoding Job 2
Inside a Transcoding Pipeline
Custom
Transcoding Job 1

9. Two Ways To Access Amazon Elastic Transcoder
AWS Management Console
AWS API

10. Amazon Elastic Transcoder Key Features
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Transcoding Pipelines
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Organize jobs
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Parallel transcoding
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Progressing, Completed, Warning, Error
Formats
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Pre-defined presets for popular output
formats
H.264/AAC/MP4, H.264/AAC/MPEG-2
TS, WebM and MP3 output
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Output HLS segmented filesets
Custom presets
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Common input formats
Monitoring and Management
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Notifications
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Transcoding Presets
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Status via console and API
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Available in multiple regions
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Console and API with SDKs for Java,
.NET, Node.js, PHP, Python and Ruby.

11. Pricing
US East
(N. Virginia)
US West (Oregon)
US West
(N. California)
EU (Ireland)
Asia Pacific
(Singapore)
Asia Pacific (Japan)
$0.00450
$0.00450
$0.00522
$0.00522
$0.00522
$0.00558
SD/minute
$0.015
$0.015
$0.017
$0.017
$0.017
$0.018
HD/minute
$0.030
$0.030
$0.034
$0.034
$0.034
$0.036
Content Type
Audio/minute
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Per minute pricing with no commitment
SD is half of HD (SD is $0.015/minute in US East and US West Oregon)
Free tier of 20 minutes audio, 20 SD and 10 HD minutes/month
Forgiveness for failed jobs
No data transfer charges (within a region)
Amazon Confidential

12. 2013 Feature Releases
November Release
• Clip generation
October Release
• Audio-only transcoding
• Album art
• Audio metadata
July Release
• Visual watermark support
• Max bit rate and frame rate support
May Release
January Release
• H.264, AAC, MP4 output
• One output per job
• Thumbnail support
• Transcoding pipeline support
• IAM support
• System and custom preset support
• Integration with Amazon S3 permissions
and storage options
• HLS output support
• MPEG-2 TS output container support
• WebM output support
• Multiple outputs per job
• Enhanced aspect ratio and sizing policies
• Auto video bit rate optimization (CRF)
• Video duration in job information

13. Amazon Elastic Transcoder Resources
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Try it! https://console.aws.amazon.com/elastictranscoder
Read more about the features: http://aws.amazon.com/elastictranscoder/
Read the FAQ: http://aws.amazon.com/elastictranscoder/faqs/
See the pricing: http://aws.amazon.com/elastictranscoder/pricing/
Read the documentation:
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/elastictranscoder/latest/developerguide
Visit the AWS Discussion Forums:
https://forums.aws.amazon.com/forumfilter.jspa?forumID=147

14. Thank You For Your Time… Any Questions?
www.elastictranscoder.com