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
Working with Pipelines
Topics
- Creating a Pipeline in Elastic Transcoder
- Pausing and Reactivating Pipelines in Elastic Transcoder
- Updating Pipeline Notifications in Elastic Transcoder
- Listing and Viewing Pipelines in Elastic Transcoder
- Deleting an Elastic Transcoder Pipeline
- Settings that You Specify When You Create an Elastic Transcoder Pipeline
Pipelines are queues that manage your transcoding jobs. When you create a job, you specify the pipeline to which you want to add the job. Elastic Transcoder starts processing the jobs in a pipeline in the order in which you added them.
One common configuration is to create two pipelines—one for standard-priority jobs, and one for high-priority jobs. Most jobs go into the standard-priority pipeline; you use the high-priority pipeline only when you need to transcode a file immediately.
If there are other jobs in a pipeline when you create a job, Elastic Transcoder starts processing the new job when resources are available. A pipeline can process more than one job simultaneously, and the time required to complete a job varies significantly based on the size of the file you're converting and the job specifications. As a result, jobs don't necessarily complete in the order in which you create them.
You can temporarily pause a pipeline so it stops processing jobs. This is useful if you want to cancel one or more jobs, which you can do only until Elastic Transcoder starts processing the jobs.
