Clickbait title. The expensive part was passing around individual frames and the associated S3 operations. It's not clear if they could've kept a distributed ar

Clickbait title. The expensive part was passing around individual frames and the associated S3 operations. It's not clear if they could've kept a distributed architecture but made the work units be chunks of frames or even whole videos. Monoliths can inefficiently use S3 and other cloud services to rack up a huge bill.