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Amazon Elastic Transcoder vs CloudFlare: What are the differences?
What is 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.
What is CloudFlare? The Web Performance & Security Company. Cloudflare speeds up and protects millions of websites, APIs, SaaS services, and other properties connected to the Internet.
Amazon Elastic Transcoder and CloudFlare are primarily classified as "Media Transcoding" and "Content Delivery Network" tools respectively.
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, CloudFlare provides the following key features:
- CDN
- WAF (Web Application Firewall)
- DDOS Protection
Stack Exchange, Lyft, and Udemy are some of the popular companies that use CloudFlare, whereas Amazon Elastic Transcoder is used by Zumba, Percolate, and AmperVue. CloudFlare has a broader approval, being mentioned in 2325 company stacks & 726 developers stacks; compared to Amazon Elastic Transcoder, which is listed in 28 company stacks and 6 developer stacks.
Pros of Amazon Elastic Transcoder
Pros of CloudFlare
- Easy setup, great cdn426
- Free ssl278
- Easy setup200
- Security191
- Ssl181
- Great cdn98
- Optimizer77
- Simple71
- Great UI44
- Great js cdn28
- AutoMinify12
- HTTP/2 Support12
- Apps12
- DNS Analytics12
- Ipv69
- Rocket Loader9
- Easy9
- Fantastic CDN service8
- IPv6 "One Click"8
- DNSSEC7
- Free GeoIP7
- Amazing performance7
- API7
- Cheapest SSL7
- Nice DNS7
- SSHFP7
- SPDY6
- Free and reliable, Faster then anyone else6
- Asynchronous resource loading5
- Ubuntu5
- Global Load Balancing4
- Easy Use4
- Performance4
- CDN3
- Support for SSHFP records2
- Registrar2
- Web31
- Прохси1
- HTTPS3/Quic1
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Cons of Amazon Elastic Transcoder
Cons of CloudFlare
- No support for SSHFP records2
- Expensive when you exceed their fair usage limits2
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