‫Now let's talk
‫about Amazon Elastic Transcoder.
‫So Elastic Transcoder is used to convert media files stored
‫in Amazon S3 into media files in the format required
‫by consumer playback devices, so phones, et cetera.
‫So let's take a concrete example.
‫You're going to put a media file,
‫so, for example, a video, into your Amazon S3 buckets,
‫and then you're going to run it
‫through your transcoding pipeline on Elastic Transcoder,
‫and it's going to convert that video file into a bunch
‫of different video files that are all going to be put
‫into an S3 output bucket.
‫And that output bucket is going to have a bunch
‫of files that are going to be compatible with a wide array
‫of different devices, such as your smartphones
‫your tablets, your PC, et cetera, et cetera.
‫So the benefits of using Elastic Transcoder
‫is that it's easy to use.
‫It's highly scalable, so the more files you have
‫in your N3 output bucket,
‫the more processing power that you're going to have.
‫It's cost effective because you're only going to pay
‫for the amount of time that your media was being transcoded,
‫and it's fully managed and secure.
‫You're only going to pay for what you use.
‫So the idea is that, yes,
‫it's perfect use case for the cloud.
‫So you don't need to spend money and money
‫on your EC2 instances to convert your files.
‫You can just use Elastic Transcoder
‫and just pay what has been consumed.
‫So I hope you liked this lecture.
‫I will see you in the next lecture.