Understanding billing and usage in MediaConvert
When using AWS Elemental MediaConvert, you don't have to pay any upfront fees or commit to how much content you'll transcode. Like other Amazon Web Services services, you pay as you go and pay only for what you use.
This section provides very general information about pricing. For detailed information,
see https://aws.amazon.com/mediaconvert/pricing/
Amazon provides the following reports for MediaConvert:
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Billing reports – Provides high-level views of all of the activity for the Amazon Web Services services that you're using, including MediaConvert. With billing reports, you can also find the total number of Normalized Transcoding Minutes for MediaConvert jobs you were billed for within a billing period. For more information about billing reports, see Amazon Billing reports for MediaConvert.
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Usage report – A summary of activity for a specific service, aggregated by hour, day, or month. You can choose which usage type and operation to include, and choose how the data is aggregated. With usage reports, you can find a breakdown for which MediaConvert features you used. For more information, see Amazon usage reports for MediaConvert.
The following topics provide information about billing and usage reporting for MediaConvert.