I was a lot easier than I thought to build a video delivery system. From a backend point of view: s3 -> mediaconvert -> s3 -> backblaze -> fastly gives you a

I was a lot easier than I thought to build a video delivery system. From a backend point of view: s3 -> mediaconvert -> s3 -> backblaze -> fastly gives you a super low cost solution that can scale forever. If you commit to bandwidth for fastly you can get that super cheap. I've played around with ffmpeg for a few days, and with over 100 videos I couldn't get it to make the video smaller than mediaconvert. That's probably a personal problem, but it makes me wonder how good the ffmpeg encoders actually are. And I was using the original source to compress. Anyway, good luck to you. The video space is about marketing. It's really crowded, and in the end marketing people don't care how much or how good the solution is...which is why BrightCove and Vimeo exist. They literally suck at everything except marketing. It'll be a great day when they die.