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Discussion on: How to Serve On-Demand Streaming Videos from AWS (Build Your Own Netflix)

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Andrew Brown 🇨🇦 • Edited

How to make your own Youtube

Its how to build your own "Netflix" and I was deliberate in my wording to not use Youtube because the strategy to keep costs low for publically available videos of larger quantity is different in that I would recommend provisioning your own transcoding servers to lower costs than using AWS managed transcoding services.

It's cheaper to use a CDN for the streaming

We are using a CDN for streaming which does keep costs low. That's CloudFront

it's only mp4 to DASH without multiple bitrates and resolutions thats not CPU intensive and can be done with very cheap servers

No argument here, though the goal was to show people how to use Elastic Transcoder for 3 reasons:

  • Good for the study of certifications (that's our thing)
  • Not many talks on Elastic Transcoder out there so sharing is caring
  • The cost of a developer can outweight a managed service

Destroyed lol!

Sorry buddy, don't mean to tear you down but you're not giving us the benifit of the doubt here.