Event driven elastic transcoder?

Question

Is there a way to set up a transcoding pipeline on AWS so that it automatically transcodes any new files loaded into a specific S3 bucket and puts them in another bucket?

I know that there is a REST API, and theoretically, the loader can also issue a REST request to the transcoder after it has downloaded the file, but for a number of reasons this is not quite an option.

Answer 1

This can now be done using AWS Lambda .

Lambda basically allows you to run / run scripts based on events. You can easily create a Lambda script that runs as soon as a new file is loaded into the dedicated s3 bucket. The script will then start the transcoding job for this newly uploaded video file.

This is literally one of the usage examples provided in the Lambda documentation.