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Amazon Elastic Transcoder vs. AWS CloudFormation

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Amazon Elastic Transcoder

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/AThe 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

    AWS CloudFormation

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/AAWS CloudFormation gives developers and systems administrators a way to create and manage a collection of related AWS resources, provisioning and updating them in a predictable fashion. Use AWS CloudFormation’s sample templates or create templates to describe the AWS resources, and any associated dependencies or runtime parameters, required to run an application. Users don’t need to figure out the order for provisioning AWS services or the subtleties of making those dependencies work.…

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    Pricing
    Amazon Elastic TranscoderAWS CloudFormation
    Editions & Modules
    Audio Only
    $0.0045
    per minute
    Less than 720p
    $0.015
    per minute
    720p and above
    $0.03
    per minute
    Free Tier - 1,000 Handler Operations per Month per Account
    $0.00
    Handler Operation
    $0.0009
    per handler operation
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Amazon Elastic TranscoderAWS CloudFormation
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    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.There is no additional charge for using AWS CloudFormation with resource providers in the following namespaces: AWS::*, Alexa::*, and Custom::*. In this case you pay for AWS resources (such as Amazon EC2 instances, Elastic Load Balancing load balancers, etc.) created using AWS CloudFormation as if you created them manually. You only pay for what you use, as you use it; there are no minimum fees and no required upfront commitments. When you use resource providers with AWS CloudFormation outside the namespaces mentioned above, you incur charges per handler operation. Handler operations are create, update, delete, read, or list actions on a resource.
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    Features
    Amazon Elastic TranscoderAWS CloudFormation
    Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
    Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of Amazon Elastic Transcoder and AWS CloudFormation
    Feature
    Amazon Elastic Transcoder
    9.2
    3 Ratings
    AWS CloudFormation
    -
    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
    User Ratings
    Amazon Elastic TranscoderAWS CloudFormation
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.5
    (3 ratings)
    7.6
    (5 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)