The Transcode API can connect directly to your AWS S3, Microsoft Azure, or Google Storage account with credentials, can read any publicly available file on the web, pre-signed URLs, or HTTP with basic authentication. This works the same for your output storage. See our media input and output guides for more detail. For testing the Media APIs, we also offer Dolby Temporary Cloud Storage free of charge so that you can upload and download local files without having to connect your own storage account.