{"id":2828,"date":"2012-07-26T13:55:48","date_gmt":"2012-07-26T13:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudnewsdaily.com\/?p=11480"},"modified":"2012-07-26T13:55:48","modified_gmt":"2012-07-26T13:55:48","slug":"google-compute-engine-and-cloud-video-transcoding-how-does-it-compare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/google-compute-engine-and-cloud-video-transcoding-how-does-it-compare\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Compute Engine and Cloud Video Transcoding \u2014 How Does it Compare?"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Zencoder performed some initial comparison tests of Google Compute Engine versus Amazon EC2 for transfering and transcoding video.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>&#8220;On EC2, we use Cluster Compute instances, which are fast dual-CPU machines in two sizes: 4XL and 8XL. We compared these with the fastest GCE instance type, which is currently a single-CPU 8-core server.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s one of their resulting charts:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.zencoder.com\/2012\/07\/23\/first-look-at-google-compute-engine-for-video-transcoding\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11485\" title=\"GCE-vs-EC2\" src=\"http:\/\/d11be2feca2wef.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/GCE-vs-EC2-e1343310606347.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"491\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.zencoder.com\/2012\/07\/23\/first-look-at-google-compute-engine-for-video-transcoding\/\">full post<\/a> for details.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?x-id=c94a8d9e-c10f-47e4-93e2-d6534fef7dfc\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/z_7wscbq8syL-Abewf4BoSYDjyg\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/z_7wscbq8syL-Abewf4BoSYDjyg\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/z_7wscbq8syL-Abewf4BoSYDjyg\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/z_7wscbq8syL-Abewf4BoSYDjyg\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/CloudNewsDaily\/~4\/wmMzaxwbBdY\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zencoder performed some initial comparison tests of Google Compute Engine versus Amazon EC2 for transfering and transcoding video. &#8220;On EC2, we use Cluster Compute instances, which are fast dual-CPU machines in two sizes: 4XL and 8XL. We compared these with the fastest GCE instance type, which is currently a single-CPU 8-core server.&#8221; Here&#8217;s one of [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[136,720,344,719,721,42,722],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amazon-aws","category-amazon-elastic-compute-cloud","category-google","category-google-compute-engine","category-transcoding","category-video","category-zencoder"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}