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Amazon Elastic Transcoder vs. DigitalOcean Droplets

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting 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
DigitalOcean Droplets
Score 8.7 out of 10
N/A
DigitalOcean's Droplets is designed to help the user spin up a virtual machine in just 55 seconds. Standard, General Purpose, CPU-Optimized, or Memory-Optimized configurations provide flexibility to build, test, and grow an app from startup to scale.
$4
per month
Pricing
Amazon Elastic TranscoderDigitalOcean Droplets
Editions & Modules
Audio Only
$0.0045
per minute
Less than 720p
$0.015
per minute
720p and above
$0.03
per minute
Basic
$4
per month
CPU-Optimized
$42
per month
General Purpose
$63
per month
Memory-Optimized
$84
per month
Storage-Optimized
$131
per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Amazon Elastic TranscoderDigitalOcean Droplets
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
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.Pricing for DigitalOcean Droplets varies depending on the size of the virtual environment and the associated data needs.
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Community Pulse
Amazon Elastic TranscoderDigitalOcean Droplets
Considered Both Products
Amazon Elastic Transcoder
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Amazon Elastic Transcoder
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 …
DigitalOcean Droplets
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose DigitalOcean Droplets
Vultr had better performance in some instances but overall the dashboard was a mess to use a lot of times. When you zoom out from server performance and price, DigitalOcean offered more useful features, and the API was more consistent in some of the use cases we needed.
Prashant Chaudhari | TrustRadius Reviewer
Prashant Chaudhari
Head of Engineering & Founding team member
Chose DigitalOcean Droplets
Cost is much lesser
Interface is very easy to use
Documentation is readily available for most of the usecases.
Anuj Rai | TrustRadius Reviewer
Anuj Rai
Senior Associate Technology
Chose DigitalOcean Droplets
The reason for selecting digital ocean was since we require a cloud solution for testing applications internally without being bothered about servers needing to be deployed in different geographical locations. As Droplets can be deployed very easily and boot faster than any …
LA
Laila Abouizza
Backend Developer
Chose DigitalOcean Droplets
DigitalOcean Droplets has more advanced options and the devs at our team are extremely geeky and they prefer to have full control on the server via SSH rather than cPanel.
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose DigitalOcean Droplets
DigitalOcean Droplets is continuously evolving to be more and more powerful. It has great features and has low cost options, which is really great for developers. Its CDN, Loadbalancer, etc. make it a good place to host a high-traffic application. Moroever, DigitalOcean …
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose DigitalOcean Droplets
Both Linode and DigitalOcean Droplets perform about the same and cost about the same. However we prefer the DigitalOcean Droplets interface, and the Cloud Firewall service is a must for us.
Features
Amazon Elastic TranscoderDigitalOcean Droplets
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of Product A and Product B
Amazon Elastic Transcoder
9.2
Ratings
13% above category average
DigitalOcean Droplets
-
Ratings
Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Dynamic scaling10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Elastic load balancing9.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Pre-configured templates9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Monitoring tools9.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Pre-defined machine images8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Operating system support9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Security controls8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Automation9.50 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
8.5
(0 ratings)
9.9
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
8.0
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Amazon Elastic TranscoderDigitalOcean Droplets
Likelihood to Recommend
If your entire stack is in AWS. Amazon Elastic Transcoder is easier to integrate into your workflow. As input and output files can be in S3. You can get notifications when your job is complete. If you want real-time transcoding it is not possible with this service.
Abhinav Neela | TrustRadius Reviewer
Abhinav Neela
Senior Software Engineer
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There are some other platforms that compete with DigitalOcean Droplets that have more performant servers for a very minimal price decrease. However, DigitalOcean's servers still have great performance, and the experience is better when you consider the developer console, managed options, and uptime that DigitalOcean offers. DigitalOcean is the better all-around package.
Verified User
Anonymous
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Pros
  • converting and playing audio and video files on the go
  • cloud capability
  • speed and reliability
Verified User
Anonymous
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  • Simplicity to scale services--the interface is very quick and effective to use
  • Reliability--this is key for us, as any downtime effects our reputation
  • Keeps the costs down--hosting our own equivalent infrastructure would cost a lot more
Verified User
Anonymous
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Cons
  • Cannot transcode videos in real time
  • The quality of transcoded videos is average. There are other services that provide better quality output.
  • Slow AWS support
Abhinav Neela | TrustRadius Reviewer
Abhinav Neela
Senior Software Engineer
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  • In terms of an availability zone, they have limitations not available in most of the geographical locations.
  • No live support is available which can cause problem if you have outage.
  • Number of service is quite limited.
Anuj Rai | TrustRadius Reviewer
Anuj Rai
Senior Associate Technology
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Usability
No answers on this topic
Other platforms dashboard console is more difficult to use. DigitalOcean's dashboard is clean, simple, and straightforward
Verified User
Anonymous
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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
Dan Davidson | TrustRadius Reviewer
Dan Davidson
Software Engineer Technical Lead
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No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered
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.
Verified User
Anonymous
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DigitalOcean Droplets has more advanced options and the devs at our team are extremely geeky and they prefer to have full control on the server via SSH rather than cPanel.
LA
Laila Abouizza
Backend Developer
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Return on Investment
  • Amazon Elastic Transcoder is faster and costs less than most competitors
Dan Davidson | TrustRadius Reviewer
Dan Davidson
Software Engineer Technical Lead
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  • Digital Ocean has been great helping us move web apps to the cloud
  • Digital Ocean has been really helpful when hiring contractors
  • The interface could use some work, but overall its not terrible
Tom Blazek | TrustRadius Reviewer
Tom Blazek
IT Manager
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