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Considering 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
by ocdtrekkie 4y ago
Considering 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 4y agoTheir team/org has resource budgets too.
- ocdtrekkie 4y 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.