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I got a kick out of this site and agree with all of these suggestions. As a video guy of sorts, this one was my favorite:

Elastic Transcoder

- Should have been called Amazon Beginning Cut Pro

- Use this to deal with video weirdness (change formats, compress, etc.).

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I don’t agree with EC2. When people think about EC2 they only think about VMs. Amazon considers the EC2 service a service that encompasses, VMs, load balancers, and a lot of other stuff.

“Amazon SQL” makes it sound like Amazon’s bespoke sql database. RDS is hosted Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, MarisDB, and Postgres. They all behave so much differently it really doesn’t make any sense to combine them into one service.

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