End of support notice: On November 13, 2025, AWS will discontinue support for Amazon Elastic Transcoder. After November 13, 2025, you will no longer be able to access the Elastic Transcoder console or Elastic Transcoder resources.
For more information about transitioning to AWS Elemental MediaConvert, visit this blog post
Limits on the Number of Elastic Transcoder Pipelines, Jobs, and Presets
Elastic Transcoder pipelines, jobs, and presets are subject to the following limitations:
Pipelines: For each region, 4 pipelines per AWS account
Maximum number of queued jobs: 1,000,000 per pipeline
Maximum number of outputs: 30 per job
Maximum number of jobs processed simultaneously by each pipeline: 100 per pipeline
Presets: 50 user-defined presets per AWS account (Elastic Transcoder also includes predefined presets that don't count against the limit.)
Maximum rate at which you can submit job requests:
Create Job: You can submit two
Create Job
requests per second per AWS account at a sustained rate; brief bursts of 100 requests per second are allowed.Read Job: You can submit four
Read Job
requests per second per AWS account at a sustained rate; brief bursts of 50 requests per second are allowed.
You can request higher limits at
https://console.aws.amazon.com/support/home#/case/create?issueType=service-limit-increase&limitType=service-code-elastic-transcoders