It turns out taking it offline has yet another 90% reduction in cost.

And vastly improves security!

This is their video quality monitoring service, not their video streaming service.

It’s something they use to check for defects in the video stream - hence the storing of individual frames in S3.

I imagine they will transition to bare metal as the next step.

Don't. There's no benefit to using metal as opposed to the largest virt (which will take up the entire server anyways) pretty much. Metal just tends to be somewhat less reliable. Source: I work here.

Sure, mine was a tongue-in-cheek comment, but there are cost benefits of bare metal in some use cases, especially if your workload is more or less predictable.

lol. Amazon is literally where microservices became mainstream.

From Amazon's PoV, AWS is on-prem ;-)

Tongue in cheek, but

> Amazon Web Services, Inc. is a subsidiary of Amazon

So it’s technically another company.

Another comment seems to confirm this akshually comment ^_^’

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35812230

It’s still all Amazon, the single publicly traded company. Legal shenanigans/optimizations don’t change that. The other commenter was referring to AWS the org over Amazon Retail or Devices (other orgs).

Context: I worked at Amazon Retail for 10 years.

Amazon Retail and AWS are the same legal entity for stocks, but other than that they might as well be separate companies.

Retail uses AWS with all the same APIs and quirks as any other company. The only thing different is the negotiation on price (which many large companies also do).

Meanwhile, AWS is apathetic towards feature requests from Retail, and especially operational support for Retail.

In many ways Retail would be better off if it was a separate company and could threaten AWS with a multi-cloud diversification play.

GECKO all the way. :) I think AWS gave a reasonable price to Retail. The migration caused the biggest outage of the website but at the end there was some pretty nice cost saving on the YOY infra cost.

I worked on both sides. I mostly agree except there are cases of important projects including AWS (like some of the ML work), also the whole aws usage discount/pricing thing is pretty huge and clearly the value in being within the same company. Retail would have a pretty hard time existing nowadays if they weren’t connect to aws imho.

I wouldn't be surprised if AWS started a on-prem hardware leasing service. Some company are providing "On-premise As A Servicse" solution.

Isn’t that what AWS Outposts are? Leased hardware with a subset of AWS services running on them.

They already do ^_^. AWS Outpost[1]

[1]: https://aws.amazon.com/outposts/

Could you name names? I am very interested in this!

Hetzner ?

What a delightful euphemism for "leasing".