Any way to compress video with AWS service?

Question

Is there any way to support reducing video size while uploading video files to AWS S3 bucket ?

I tried Lambda service provided by AWS. I downloaded video file from the input bucket and used ffmpeg to compress the video file. But there is only 512MB space limit in tmp folder which is only writable folder in Lambda and 512MB is not enough for my work.

Anyone has ideas to figure out this?

Answer 1

There are two AWS services that might assist:

The Amazon Elastic Transcoder service lets you convert media files stored in Amazon S3. For example, you can convert large, high-quality digital media files into formats that users can play back on mobile devices, tablets, web browsers, and connected televisions.

TheAWS Elemental MediaConvert is a file-based video processing service that provides scalable video processing for content owners and distributors with media libraries of any size.

These will not convert "while uploading". Rather, they will transcode videos already stored in Amazon S3 and will save the results back to S3. To reduce the storage size of a video, you would need to change some attributes (eg dimensions, quality, encoding method) that would result in a smaller file.