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Amazon Elastic Transcoder vs AWS Elemental MediaLive: What are the differences?
Amazon Elastic Transcoder: Media transcoding in the cloud using Amazon EC2. Convert or transcode media files from their source format into versions that will playback on devices like smartphones, tablets and PCs. Create a transcoding “job” specifying the location of your source media file and how you want it transcoded. Amazon Elastic Transcoder also provides transcoding presets for popular output formats. All these features are available via service API, AWS SDKs and the AWS Management Console; AWS Elemental MediaLive: Encode live video for broadcast and streaming to any device. AWS Elemental MediaLive is a broadcast-grade live video processing service. It lets you create high-quality video streams for delivery to broadcast televisions and internet-connected multiscreen devices, like connected TVs, tablets, smart phones, and set-top boxes.
Amazon Elastic Transcoder and AWS Elemental MediaLive belong to "Media Transcoding" category of the tech stack.
Some of the features offered by Amazon Elastic Transcoder are:
- Amazon Elastic Transcoder runs your transcoding jobs using the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). Built to work with content you store in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)
- Automatically receive status of your transcoding jobs via Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS)
- Query the status of transcoding jobs.
On the other hand, AWS Elemental MediaLive provides the following key features:
- Comprehensive video standards support
- Broadcast capabilities for live video streams
- Automated resource provisioning
