Working with queues in AWS Elemental MediaConvert
A queue is a set of resources that processes jobs.
To start a job, you submit it to a queue. AWS Elemental MediaConvert processes jobs that you submit to
a queue in parallel. When all of your queue's resources are used, additional jobs stay in a
SUBMITTED state until your queue's resources become available again. Use
queues to manage the resources that are available to your account.
MediaConvert offers the following two queue types:
- On-demand queues
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With on-demand queues, you don't have to set up anything in advance. Your default queue is an on-demand queue. You pay rates that depend on the features that you use. For more information, see MediaConvert Pricing
. - Reserved queues
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With reserved queues, you pay for the transcoding capacity of the entire queue, regardless of how much or how little you use it. For more information, see MediaConvert Pricing
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All jobs run in a queue. If you don't specify a queue when you create your job, MediaConvert sends it to the default on-demand queue.
For information about how many queues you can create and how many jobs those queues can run, see Service quotas in the AWS General Reference Guide.
You can set up your job to move from one queue to another automatically if it stays in a
SUBMITTED state for too long. For more information, see Queue hopping.
The time to complete a job varies significantly according to your input files and job settings. Accordingly, MediaConvert doesn't always complete jobs in the same order that you submit them.
How to specify a queue for your job
You specify a job's queue when you submit your job. The following tabs show different options for specifying a queue for your job.
The following topics provide information about how queues work in general, and about each type of queue specifically.
