AWS Open Source Blog
Author: Jonathan Swinney
Jonathan Swinney is a Software Development Engineer at AWS (Annapurna Labs) working on software optimization for Graviton processors in Austin, Texas. He has contributed to various open source projects to improve performance on Graviton, including FFmpeg, OpenSSL, Golang, and others. Prior to working on Graviton, he helped launch and maintain the EC2 F1 instance.
Video Encoding on Graviton in 2025
In 2022, we published a post describing the advantages of running video encoding workloads on AWS Graviton processors. Since that time, AWS launched Graviton4 powered C8g instances which offer up to 30% better performance than Graviton3. On video encoding workloads, Graviton4 performs 12-15% better than Graviton3, depending on the encoder, as shown in the following […]
Optimized Video Encoding with FFmpeg on AWS Graviton Processors
Graviton2 and Graviton3 processors are cost efficient and fast for running video transcoding. With the latest improvements to the open source FFmpeg and codecs, the advantage has only improved.