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Amazon Elastic Transcoder

Amazon Elastic Transcoder is media transcoding in the cloud. It is designed to be a highly scalable, easy-to-use, and cost-effective way for developers and businesses to convert or transcode media files from their source format into versions that will play back on devices like smartphones, tablets, and PCs.

agent ready

Reference-quality API operations across every facet — a rich contract, published governance, transparent operations, and machine-readable commercial terms.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Amazon Elastic Transcoder the way a machine reads it — 450 machine-readable artifacts across 6 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.

Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Amazon Elastic Transcoder scores 72.8/100 (exemplar), with a separate agent-readiness read of 48/100 (agent ready). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.

Kin Score

This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.

Kin Score Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 72.8/100 · exemplar
Contract Quality 18.4 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 9.1 / 20
Commercial Clarity 17.9 / 20
Operational Transparency 8.2 / 13
Governance 10.4 / 12
Discoverability 8.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 48/100 · agent ready
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile Amazon Elastic Transcoder

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Amazon Elastic Transcoder. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.

APIs 6

Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Amazon Elastic Transcoder Jobs API

The Jobs API from Amazon Elastic Transcoder — 2 operation(s) for jobs.

Amazon Elastic Transcoder JobsByPipeline API

The JobsByPipeline API from Amazon Elastic Transcoder — 1 operation(s) for jobsbypipeline.

Amazon Elastic Transcoder JobsByStatus API

The JobsByStatus API from Amazon Elastic Transcoder — 1 operation(s) for jobsbystatus.

Amazon Elastic Transcoder Pipelines API

The Pipelines API from Amazon Elastic Transcoder — 4 operation(s) for pipelines.

Amazon Elastic Transcoder Presets API

The Presets API from Amazon Elastic Transcoder — 2 operation(s) for presets.

Amazon Elastic Transcoder RoleTests API

The RoleTests API from Amazon Elastic Transcoder — 1 operation(s) for roletests.

Postman Collections 1

A runnable collection turns the contract into something a developer can execute in seconds. We profile them because the fastest way to trust an API is to make a real call against it.

Ready-to-run Postman collections for exercising this provider's APIs.

Open Collections 1

Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Amazon Elastic Transcoder

OPEN COLLECTION

Arazzo Workflows 6

Real integrations are rarely a single call. Arazzo describes the multi-step sequences — auth, then create, then confirm — so both a human and an agent can follow the choreography, not just the endpoints.

Multi-step API workflows described with the Arazzo specification.

Amazon Elastic Transcoder Find a Submitted Job by Status and Cancel It

List jobs that are still in the Submitted state, then cancel the first one returned.

ARAZZO

Amazon Elastic Transcoder List Jobs by Pipeline and Read the First Job

List the jobs currently in a pipeline, then read detailed information about the first job returned.

ARAZZO

Amazon Elastic Transcoder Pause Pipeline and Cancel a Submitted Job

Pause a pipeline so no new jobs start, then cancel a job that is still in the Submitted state.

ARAZZO

Amazon Elastic Transcoder Create Pipeline, Submit Job, and Poll to Completion

Stand up a transcoding pipeline, submit a job to it, then poll the job until it reaches a terminal status.

ARAZZO

Amazon Elastic Transcoder Provision Pipeline and Preset, Submit Job, and Poll

Provision both a pipeline and a preset from scratch, submit a job that uses them, then poll the job to completion.

ARAZZO

Amazon Elastic Transcoder Create Preset and Submit a Job Using It

Define a reusable output preset, then submit a transcoding job into an existing pipeline that uses the new preset.

ARAZZO

Pricing Plans 1

Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Rate Limits 1

Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Features 5

The notable capabilities this provider advertises, captured as structured features so they can be searched and compared instead of read one landing page at a time.

Notable capabilities this provider offers.

Managed Transcoding Pipelines

Create pipelines that manage media transcoding jobs with configurable input/output settings

Preset Library

Use built-in presets optimized for popular devices and formats

Custom Presets

Create custom presets for specific output requirements

Thumbnail Generation

Automatically generate thumbnails from video files during transcoding

Content Protection

Apply HLS content protection and digital rights management

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Amazon Elastic Transcoder Context

67 classes · 108 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 2

Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.

Amazon Elastic Transcoder API Rules

5 rules · 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

Amazon Elastic Transcoder API Rules

24 rules · 10 errors · 13 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 171

Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

AccessControl

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

AccessControls

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

AccessDeniedException

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Artwork

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Artworks

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Ascending

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

AspectRatio

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

AudioBitDepth

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

AudioBitOrder

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

AudioBitRate

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

AudioChannels

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

AudioCodecOptions

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

AudioCodecProfile

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

AudioCodec

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

AudioPackingMode

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

AudioParameters

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

AudioSampleRate

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

AudioSigned

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Base64EncodedString

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

BucketName

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CancelJobRequest

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CancelJobResponse

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CaptionFormatFormat

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CaptionFormatPattern

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CaptionFormat

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CaptionFormats

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CaptionMergePolicy

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CaptionSource

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CaptionSources

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Captions

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Clip

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CodecOption

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CodecOptions

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Composition

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CreateJobOutput

11 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CreateJobOutputs

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CreateJobPlaylist

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CreateJobPlaylists

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CreateJobRequest

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CreateJobResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CreatePipelineRequest

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CreatePipelineResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CreatePresetRequest

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CreatePresetResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DeletePipelineRequest

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DeletePipelineResponse

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DeletePresetRequest

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DeletePresetResponse

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Description

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DetectedProperties

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DigitsOrAuto

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Digits

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

EncryptionMode

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Encryption

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ExceptionMessages

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Filename

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

FixedGOP

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

FloatString

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

FrameRate

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Grantee

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

GranteeType

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

HlsContentProtectionMethod

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

HlsContentProtection

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

HorizontalAlign

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Id

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

IncompatibleVersionException

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

InputCaptions

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Interlaced

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

InternalServiceException

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JobAlbumArt

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JobContainer

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JobInput

10 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JobInputs

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JobOutput

21 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JobOutputs

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Job

12 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JobStatus

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JobWatermark

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JobWatermarks

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Jobs

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JpgOrPng

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

KeyArn

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

KeyIdGuid

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Key

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

KeyStoragePolicy

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

KeyframesMaxDist

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

LimitExceededException

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ListJobsByPipelineRequest

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ListJobsByPipelineResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ListJobsByStatusRequest

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ListJobsByStatusResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ListPipelinesRequest

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ListPipelinesResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ListPresetsRequest

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ListPresetsResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

LongKey

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

MaxFrameRate

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

MergePolicy

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Name

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

NonEmptyBase64EncodedString

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Notifications

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

NullableInteger

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

NullableLong

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

OneTo512String

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Opacity

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

OutputKeys

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PaddingPolicy

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Permission

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Permissions

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PipelineOutputConfig

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Pipeline

11 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PipelineStatus

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Pipelines

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PixelsOrPercent

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PlayReadyDrmFormatString

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PlayReadyDrm

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PlaylistFormat

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Playlist

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Playlists

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PresetContainer

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Preset

9 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PresetType

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PresetWatermarkId

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PresetWatermark

10 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PresetWatermarks

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Presets

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ReadJobRequest

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ReadJobResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ReadPipelineRequest

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ReadPipelineResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ReadPresetRequest

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ReadPresetResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Resolution

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ResourceInUseException

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ResourceNotFoundException

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Role

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Rotate

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SizingPolicy

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SnsTopic

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SnsTopics

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

StorageClass

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

String

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Success

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Target

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

TestRoleRequest

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

TestRoleResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ThumbnailPattern

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ThumbnailResolution

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Thumbnails

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

TimeOffset

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Time

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

TimeSpan

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Timing

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

UpdatePipelineNotificationsRequest

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

UpdatePipelineNotificationsResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

UpdatePipelineRequest

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

UpdatePipelineResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

UpdatePipelineStatusRequest

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

UpdatePipelineStatusResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

UserMetadata

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ValidationException

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

VerticalAlign

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

VideoBitRate

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

VideoCodec

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

VideoParameters

15 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Warning

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Warnings

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

WatermarkKey

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

WatermarkSizingPolicy

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ZeroTo255String

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ZeroTo512String

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

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JSON Structure 171

JSON Structure captures the data shapes in a form built for tooling — a complement to JSON Schema that keeps the model machine-legible.

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

Amazon Elastic Transcoder Clip Structure

1 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Amazon Elastic Transcoder Digits Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Amazon Elastic Transcoder Id Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Amazon Elastic Transcoder Job Structure

12 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Amazon Elastic Transcoder Jobs Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Amazon Elastic Transcoder Key Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Amazon Elastic Transcoder Name Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Amazon Elastic Transcoder Preset Structure

9 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Amazon Elastic Transcoder Role Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Amazon Elastic Transcoder Rotate Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Amazon Elastic Transcoder String Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Amazon Elastic Transcoder Target Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Amazon Elastic Transcoder Time Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Amazon Elastic Transcoder Timing Structure

3 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

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Examples 74

Real request and response payloads are what turn a spec from abstract into obvious — and they're one of the twelve things an agent needs to call an API correctly on the first try.

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

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Security Posture 4

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Amazon Elastic Transcoder Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Amazon Elastic Transcoder Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Amazon Elastic Transcoder Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Amazon Elastic Transcoder Trust Center

PCI DSS, HIPAA, FedRAMP, GDPR, FIPS 140

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Amazon Elastic Transcoder Agentic Access

17 operations · 10 acting · 2 human-in-the-loop

17 operations · 10 acting

AGENTIC

Use Cases 4

What developers actually build with this provider — captured so the catalogue answers 'what is this for', not just 'what does this expose'.

What developers build with this provider.

Video-on-Demand Transcoding

Convert video files for streaming across different devices and bandwidths

Mobile Video Delivery

Transcode content optimized for smartphone and tablet playback

HLS Streaming

Create adaptive bitrate HLS streams for seamless playback

Audio File Conversion

Convert audio files between different formats and bitrates

Resources

Every other property we hold for Amazon Elastic Transcoder — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 8

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

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Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Learn 1

Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

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