Support for Amazon Elastic Transcoder ending soon

When Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched Amazon Elastic Transcoder in 2013 it served an important role in providing customers with a managed service for video-on-demand (VOD) transcoding. Since the release of AWS Elemental MediaConvert in 2017, continued improvements and new features have made it the more performant, cost-effective, and feature-rich VOD transcoding service.

MediaConvert offers lower rates starting at $.0075 per minute, compared to Elastic Transcoder starting rate of $.015 per minute. In addition, MediaConvert provides users with a wide range of modern codec support, professional features like color space conversion and accelerated transcoding, and improvements to encoding video quality.

After careful consideration, AWS has made the decision to discontinue Amazon Elastic Transcoder, effective November 13, 2025. If you are an active customer of Elastic Transcoder, you can use Elastic Transcoder as normal until November 13, 2025, when support for the service will end. After this date, you will no longer be able to use Elastic Transcoder or any of the capabilities provided by this service.

If you have video transcoding workflows on Elastic Transcoder today, these workflows can be migrated to MediaConvert. To learn more about migrating and to get help with the transition, please read: How to migrate workflows from Amazon Elastic Transcoder to AWS Elemental MediaConvert.

If you are unable to take action to retrieve your data before November 13, 2025 or if you have additional questions, please reach out to AWS support using your AWS account.