"by building its own equivalent of Flash Media Servers and using Amazon EC2, the company has cut costs from a market rate of approximately $0.36 per user hour to under a penny per user hour."Not bad, not bad at all. I actually watched a presentation by Kyle Vogt at the San Francisco Startup Project about their experiences with Amazon Web Services and it was pretty interesting largely because they archive massive quantities of video. Basically all the video, 24 hours per day is archived (50GB of new archive video / day) at the time of the presentation. Why people want to watch Justin sleep and why they would want to archive Justin sleeping is a question for another day (archiving Justine makes a bit more sense), but the technological challenges they are dealing with are interesting none the less.
Oh, and did I mention they recently got funded and opened up their platform so you can now broadcast your life to the world, 24x7.
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