Virtual machine based content processing

A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing one or more sequences of instructions executable by one or more processors to perform a set of operations comprising:

• obtaining a request to transcode media content stored in a resource center;
• determining, by a computer system, a prediction of transcoding for compute instances based at least in part on a history of requests for processing the media content;
• identifying the compute instances to match the prediction of processing, the compute instances configured to process the media content into one or more formats;
• and
• causing the media content to be processed from a first format into a second format by the compute instances in the resource center, the second format determined based at least in part on the prediction of processing and the compute instances identified.

A computing system, comprising:

• at least one processor;
• and
• memory including instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the computing system to:
• obtain a request to transcode media content stored in a resource center;
• determine, by a computer system, a prediction of processing for a virtual machine based at least in part on a history of requests for processing the media content;
• identify the virtual machine to match the prediction of processing, the virtual machine configured to process the media content into one or more formats;
• cause, by the computer system, a virtual machine image to be stored on the resource center, the virtual machine image including at least an operating system and information for configuring the virtual machine;
• initiate the virtual machine to access the media content stored in the resource center based at least in part on the virtual machine image;
• and
• cause the media content to be processed, using a processing algorithm, from a first format into a second format by the virtual machine in the resource center, the second format determined based at least in part on the prediction of processing, the processing algorithm, and the virtual machine.