Amazon Elastic Transcoder vs Kurento: 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 Kurento? *A WebRTC media server and a set of client APIs *. It is a WebRTC media server and a set of client APIs making simple the development of advanced video applications for WWW and smartphone platforms. Media Server features include group communications, transcoding and more.

Amazon Elastic Transcoder and Kurento can be categorized as "Media Transcoding" tools.

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, Kurento provides the following key features:

• WebRTC media server
• group communications
• broadcasting and routing of audiovisual flows