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Amazon Elastic Transcoder vs. DigitalOcean Droplets

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Amazon Elastic Transcoder

4 Reviews and Ratings

DigitalOcean Droplets

28 Reviews and Ratings

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    Overview
    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

    DigitalOcean Droplets

    Score8.7 out of 10
    		N/ADigitalOcean'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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    Features
    Amazon Elastic TranscoderDigitalOcean Droplets
    Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
    Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of Amazon Elastic Transcoder and DigitalOcean Droplets
    Feature
    Amazon Elastic Transcoder
    9.2
    3 Ratings
    DigitalOcean Droplets
    -
    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 TranscoderDigitalOcean Droplets
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.5
    (3 ratings)
    9.9
    (7 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)