> I don't know how AWS meters, but, if your assumption is right, I can abuse this and generate a huge bill to anyone just by starting streams and not consuming

> I don't know how AWS meters, but, if your assumption is right, I can abuse this and generate a huge bill to anyone just by starting streams and not consuming then. I suppose that would be easy enough to test. I was curious how video streaming services handle the case where a stream is started or partially consumed. Mux meters it in terms of [seconds of] video segments delivered: > Cost is per minute of video delivered. To calculate video delivered, we measure the number of seconds of video delivered to a video player. Note that if a segment of video is delivered, it is charged, even if the viewer doesn’t actually watch the video. [1]: https://docs.mux.com/pricing/video#delivery https://docs.mux.com/pricing/video#delivery