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0 pointsElFitz7y ago0 comments

For the AWS bill, inbound traffic is free and S3 doesn't cost much (0.023$ / GB), knowing that you'd only store one video once.

Outbound though traffic though is where it hurts: somewhere around 0.15$ / GB, and that's for each and every time any one plays a given video.

1 minute of h.265 would sit around 22Mb (according to the first source I found https://medium.com/@PoloPinetta/youtube-4k-and-h-265-uploads...)

Better get that compression going, and I hope they figure out a way to make some money soon enough, but for a small user base it should be manageable

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toomuchtodo7y ago

Put a CDN in front of S3 to keep your bill low (you’ll only get dinged for the first origin to edge transfer out), or store in Backblaze B2 instead and use Cloudflare (they have a storage/CDN partnership making the overall cost much lower than S3).

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