How to scale media reserved units (legacy)
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This article shows you how to scale Media Reserved Units (MRUs) for faster encoding.
Warning
This command will no longer work for Media Services accounts that are created with the 2020-05-01 (or later) version of the API or later. For these accounts media reserved units are no longer needed as the system will automatically scale up and down based on load. If you don’t see the option to manage MRUs in the Azure portal, you’re using an account that was created with the 2020-05-01 API or later. The purpose of this article is to document the legacy process of using MRUs
Prerequisites
Create a Media Services account.
Understand Media Reserved Units.
Scale Media Reserved Units with CLI
Run the mru command.
The following az ams account mru command sets Media Reserved Units on the "amsaccount" account using the count and type parameters.
az ams account mru set -n amsaccount -g amsResourceGroup --count 10 --type S3
Billing
While there were previously charges for Media Reserved Units, as of April 17, 2021 there are no longer any charges for accounts that have configuration for Media Reserved Units.