Other Services

AWS Opsworks

• Chef and Puppet are open source platforms and allow to perform server configuration automatically
• They work great with EC2 and on-premise VM
• AWS Opsworks = Managed Chef and Puppet
• Alternative to AWS SSM

Chef and Puppet

• They help with managing configuration as code which helps in having consistent deployments
• Work on Linux/Windows
• We can automate: user accounts, cron jobs, ntp, packages, services, etc.

Elastic Transcoder

• Convert media files (video + music) stored in S3 into various formats for tables, PCs, smartphones, TVs, etc.
• Features:
  • Optimize bite rate
  • Create thumbnails
  • Create watermarks
  • Create captions
  • DRM
  • Provides progressive download
  • Encryption
• 4 components of Elastic Transcoder:
  • Jobs: what does the work of the transcoder
  • Pipeline: queue that manages the transcoding job
  • Presets: templates for converting media from one format to another
  • Notifications
• Pay for what we use, scales automatically, fully managed