Amazon Interactive Video Service – Add Live Video to Your Apps and Websites

Post by woeirua » Thu, Jul 16, 2020, 2:18 PM UTC

jedberg wrote: post #29

woeirua wrote: post #8

The proliferation of half-baked services at AWS needs to end. There are way too many services that are just enticing enough to get you to play around with it, but then you realize it's totally crippled and unusable for most actual workflows, or that someone else already does it way better. They need to focus on a few that are commercially viable and let other companies prove out the rest.

I've always said AWS is the master of the 80% solution. They make a product that gets you most of the way there. The reason they can get away with this is because your data is already at AWS. It's a lot easier to use a new service if the data you need is already there. That's their advantage. That's where the real lock in comes from. Not from you using their services, but from you keeping your data there.

Post by ec109685 » Thu, Jul 16, 2020, 2:56 PM UTC

mmcclure wrote: post #27

ponker wrote: post #22

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You mean all those Twitch streamers see their chats More than 4 seconds after the relevant video has elapsed? And can you explain what you mean by “stateful”? Thanks

> all those Twitch streamers see their chats More than 4 seconds after the relevant video has elapsed Yep! I think Twitch can sometimes be at 4 seconds or less for what it's worth, but yes, that delay is real. It's generally not really noticeable because the communication is totally async; the streamer is doing other stuff, finishing other thoughts, etc, then can get to messages as they see them. > can you explain wh…

Post by reggieband » Thu, Jul 16, 2020, 5:14 PM UTC

PaulRobinson wrote: post #53

reggieband wrote: post #2

Price is pretty good, surprisingly. Looks like they take RTMP in and output m3u8 (probably fmp4 behind the scenes). 2 second latency is also not bad. Larger streamers on Twitch can get ~20k concurrent viewers. A long streaming day would be 10 hours. They would also be streaming from NA so using their example pricing suggests: Input: $2/hour * 10 hours = $20 Output: $0.15 * 10 * 20,000 = $30k A worst case scenario of…

Until 5 years ago I was CTO of a company called Livestation where we handled live streaming of about 40 news broadcasters including Al Jazeera, BBC World, CNN International, etc. In my stint we dealt with the Egyptian and Turkish uprisings. The relevant diasporas were super keen to see what was going on in all those countries, and often the only places you could see them online was with us (we had raw feeds in a few…

Post by PaulRobinson » Tue, Jul 21, 2020, 9:56 AM UTC

reggieband wrote: post #65

PaulRobinson wrote: post #53

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Until 5 years ago I was CTO of a company called Livestation where we handled live streaming of about 40 news broadcasters including Al Jazeera, BBC World, CNN International, etc. In my stint we dealt with the Egyptian and Turkish uprisings. The relevant diasporas were super keen to see what was going on in all those countries, and often the only places you could see them online was with us (we had raw feeds in a few…

> When Akamai can offer you a better deal than this, you have to wonder how good a deal this is. :-) If you were doing the volume of traffic necessary to get the Akamai discount in the range you are suggesting then you are also going to be able to negotiate Amazon pricing in a similar way. It is unfair to compare theoretical bulk CDN pricing to non-discounted Amazon pricing. It would be like negatively comparing the…