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Sending video frames between services is expensive, also doing per state transition hosting on things doing state transitions multiple times per second in a sin
by ikiris 3y ago
Sending video frames between services is expensive, also doing per state transition hosting on things doing state transitions multiple times per second in a single stream is also expensive...
Like, did they even think about cost when designing this the first time?
- Vosporos 3y agowhy should they, they're richer than God!
- eru 3y agoYou don't get (and stay rich) by wasting all your resources.
- ocdtrekkie 3y agoConsidering they don't actually pay the bill for this and it is internal accounting, probably not. Belt tightening has probably pushed cloud providers to figure out if they're wasting stuff they could put to better use, and I assume when it launched and nobody was watching Prime Video, inefficiencies were both smaller and less noticeable.
- bagels 3y agoTheir team/org has resource budgets too.
- ocdtrekkie 3y agoOh, absolutely. This makes the Prime Video team look more profitable on paper. But also all streaming services were pretty much launched with an expectation of taking losses for years, so Prime Video being expensive doesn't look unusual for a while. And since it's an internal cost, it's not actually Amazon paying someone, there's really not a significant reason for someone outside the Prime Video team to say "hey, you're too big of an AWS customer". More than likely, Prime Video making their numbers look better makes AWS' numbers look (slightly) worse, because they're doing a little less business. In the overarching grand scheme of things, this will save Amazon some amount of physical computing resources they weren't getting paid by an outside customer for, but good luck figuring out how much that actual real world savings is.
- bhouston 3y agoYeah completely insane original design. A design I would expect from a first year intern who is just trying to make his first project work and is picking random technologies to string together.
- radicalbyte 3y agoIt stinks of a lack of very basic engineering skills to me combined with a large dose of CV-driven-development. The latter of course helping Amazon market "serverless" to the unwashed masses as a "solution".
- adql 3y ago>Like, did they even think about cost when designing this the first time? Obviously no, only after managers complained.