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Organizing Files in Your Amazon S3 Bucket
Amazon Elastic Transcoder integrates with Amazon S3 to store input and output files. The 100-bucket storage limit in Amazon S3 affects how you organize and manage your Elastic Transcoder files.
When you work with Amazon S3, we recommend that you mimic a regular
file system
For example, suppose you are creating a user-generated content (UGC) site that takes in videos for many customers and transcodes them for use on several common devices. To store the videos, you could organize your input and output buckets like this:
Input: /
DOC-EXAMPLE-BUCKET
/input/movie.mp4 Output: /DOC-EXAMPLE-BUCKET
/output/movie/<format>
/movie.mp4
This enables you to store separate formats so you can locate them easily. For example, say you have two customers using your service to transcode different movies into multiple formats. You can organize your bucket like this:
Customer 1: /
DOC-EXAMPLE-BUCKET
/<1>
/output/movie/avi/movie.avi /DOC-EXAMPLE-BUCKET
/<1>
/output/movie/mkv/movie.mkv /DOC-EXAMPLE-BUCKET
/<1>
/output/movie/hls400k/movie.m3u8 - playlist file for the hls400k version of movie /DOC-EXAMPLE-BUCKET
/<1>
/output/movie/hls400k/movie.ts - video file for the hls400k version of movie /DOC-EXAMPLE-BUCKET
/<1>
/output/movie/hls400k/movie.png - thumbnail file for the hls400k version of movie /DOC-EXAMPLE-BUCKET
/<1>
/output/myOthermovie/hls1000k/movie.m3u8 - playlist file for the hls1000k version of movie /DOC-EXAMPLE-BUCKET
/<1>
/output/myOthermovie/hls1000k/movie.ts - video file for the hls1000k version of movie /DOC-EXAMPLE-BUCKET
/<1>
/output/myOthermovie/hls1000k/movie.png - thumbnail file for the hls1000k version of movie
Customer 2: /
DOC-EXAMPLE-BUCKET
/<2>
/output/somemovie/avi/somemovie.avi /DOC-EXAMPLE-BUCKET
/<2>
/output/somemovie/mkv/somemovie.mkv /DOC-EXAMPLE-BUCKET
/<2>
/output/somemovie/hls400k/somemovie.m3u8 - playlist file for the hls400k version of somemovie /DOC-EXAMPLE-BUCKET
/<2>
/output/somemovie/hls400k/somemovie.ts - video file for the hls400k version of somemovie /DOC-EXAMPLE-BUCKET
/<2>
/output/somemovie/hls400k/somemovie.png - thumbnail file for the hls400k version of somemovie /DOC-EXAMPLE-BUCKET
/<2>
/output/myOthermovie/hls1000k/movie.m3u8 - playlist file for the hls1000k version of movie /DOC-EXAMPLE-BUCKET
/<2>
/output/myOthermovie/hls1000k/movie.ts - video file for the hls1000k version of movie /DOC-EXAMPLE-BUCKET
/<2>
/output/myOthermovie/hls1000k/movie.png - thumbnail file for the hls1000k version of movie
We recommend that you end your OutputKeyPrefix with a '/' so that the
last part of the OutputKeyPrefix
and the OutputKey
don't
run together. Otherwise, your files will look like this:
/
DOC-EXAMPLE-BUCKET
/output/<movie title>
/mkvmovie.mkv
We also recommend that you keep your input media in a single bucket per region, and that you keep transcoded media and thumbnails in a separate bucket in the same region. This approach helps you avoid cross-region transfer fees between your Amazon S3 bucket and Elastic Transcoder.
Note
If you expect to have more than a hundred requests per second accessing your Amazon S3 buckets, we recommend you follow Amazon S3 performance considerations when designing your system.