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		makkes on May 4, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Scaling up the Prime Video audio/video monitoring ... I agree on the tradeoffs you have to make. The main cost driver here was storage and traffic, though.

babbledabbler on May 4, 2023 [–]

Good point. "communication" should also be on the list. I don't think storage is technically the tradeoff in this case even though it's S3. It's the traffic between those components that's costing them.

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