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<p>The beginning of this year 2013 is full of news in the transcoding cloud world. The two main platforms announced the release of their own solutions :</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/22/windows-azure-media-services-opens-up-adds-new-platform-for-developers/">Microsoft with Azure Media Services</a> (the 22th of January)</li> <li>one week later <span style="line-height: 16px;"><a href="http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2013/01/amazon-elastic-transcoder.html">Amazon with Elastic Transcoder</a> (the 29th of January)</span></li> </ul> <p>I made some posts …</p>

<p>The beginning of this year 2013 is full of news in the transcoding cloud world. The two main platforms announced the release of their own solutions :</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/22/windows-azure-media-services-opens-up-adds-new-platform-for-developers/">Microsoft with Azure Media Services</a> (the 22th of January)</li> <li>one week later <span style="line-height: 16px;"><a href="http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2013/01/amazon-elastic-transcoder.html">Amazon with Elastic Transcoder</a> (the 29th of January)</span></li> </ul> <p>I made some posts to introduce Azure Media Services (<a href="https://www.alkannoide.com/2012/08/24/microsoft-azure-media-services-how-to-encode-in-the-azure-cloud-part-1/" title="Microsoft Azure Media Services – How to encode in the Azure Cloud – Part 1">part 1</a>, <a href="https://www.alkannoide.com/2012/09/12/microsoft-azure-media-services-how-to-encode-in-the-azure-cloud-part-2/" title="Microsoft Azure Media Services – How to encode in the Azure Cloud – Part 2">part 2</a>) available after May  2012. Here is a quick overview to compare those different services.</p> <h2>Platform Models</h2> <p>Here is a quick overview of each platform models.</p> <h3>Amazon Elastic Transcoding</h3> <p><img src="/images/2013/02/elastic_transcode_model_1.png" class="size-full wp-image-1326 alignnone" width="547" height="374" alt="elastic_transcode_platform" /></p> <h3>Azure Media Services</h3> <p><a href="/images/2013/02/MediaServicesArch.png"><img src="/images/2013/02/MediaServicesArch.png" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1327" width="600" height="400" alt="Media Services Architecture" /></a></p> <p><span style="color: #000000; font-size: 1.8em; line-height: 1.5em;">Functionnalities</span></p> <p>This table exposes the differents features supported by each solutions.</p> <p>[table id=3 /]</p> <p>Both solutions give the opportunity to create our own presets but there are also some generic presets available : for iDevices, for mobiles, generic profiles for SD and HD.</p> <h2>Pricing</h2> <p>Each cloud company applies its own pricing, not based on the same parameters.</p> <p><img src="/images/2013/02/transcoding_icon.jpg" class="alignright" style="line-height: 24px;" width="60" height="72" alt="Amazon Elastic Transcoding" /></p> <p>On Amazon side, the price is based on output content duration. You have two prices :</p> <ul> <li>for Standard resolution (less than 720p) : 0,072€ per minute</li> <li>for HD (more than 720p) : cost of SD x 2 per minute</li> </ul> <p><img src="/images/2012/10/windowsazure.png" class="alignleft" width="100" height="76" alt="windowsazure" />Microsoft, on the other side, applies on Azure Media Service a pricing on encoded GigaBytes processed. They count input and output datas. The pricing begins at 1,99\$ by GigaBytes up to 5TeraBytes / Month. <a href="http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/pricing/details/#header-9">It reduces</a> when you use more the service. This prices don't include the storage on Amazon S3 or Azure Storage.</p> <p>To choose the good one, you need to make a table to compare, it depends of your usage. I will try soon to expose one or more architectures based on those two services to manage video assets. So keep in touch ;-)</p>