Building An Automated Video Encoding Pipeline In AWS (Graviton 2, Batch and ECS)

Last year on 11th May, Amazon launched their first 6th generation EC2 general-purpose instance, a.k.a “Graviton 2”, their next-generation Arm-based chip, utilizing 64-bit Arm Neoverse N1 cores. These processors boast up to 40% overall improvement on cost-performance ratio, compared to similar-sized M5 instances.

I’ve been meaning to build a “portable” video encoding pipeline for quite some time and this seemed like a good time and opportunity.

This whole CloudFormation template is available on my Github.

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