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Re:Cost of serving billions of images per month by abhiyerra on Saturday May 04, 2019 @11:00PM (#19830845)
Wonder if they could use S3 bucket with a lambda to resize. I’m sure their images are a long tail so certain images likely have way more traffic than others. At a previous company where we were also doing a lot of imgix traffic we did something like this but with a go service but now I’d just offload to s3 and use lambda to avoid Devops..
Re:Cost of serving billions of images per month by scarface74 on Saturday May 04, 2019 @11:08PM (#19830874)
I’ve done exactly this. But not at any scale. But if they are specializing in this and with low margins, AWS is not the answer. The compute cost would be relatively cheap and possibly even the storage cost. I would think that the bandwidth costs would be expensive.
Re:Cost of serving billions of images per month by philliphaydon on Sunday May 05, 2019 @02:10AM (#19831440)
A friend of mine runs a site which uses aws s3 and lambda resizing, but cache is via BunnyCDN. His costs are low after moving from aws cloudfront, and he’s serving ~400m images a day. (This is run by a company of 2 staff)

Just because everything is in AWS doesn’t force you to use all of AWS services.

Re:Cost of serving billions of images per month by superwayne on Sunday May 05, 2019 @11:12AM (#19833191)
Do you happen to have a link?
Re:Cost of serving billions of images per month by manigandham on Sunday May 05, 2019 @02:45AM (#19831529)
hey man, nice seeing you here.