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> But then there is the question of cost on AWS side.

Use Cloudflare R2 for storage, public bucket for delivery, and a $10/month Hetzner server to run conversions. You don't have to take your users' money just to burn it on AWS...

If you are using AWS and are worried about cost, the first step is to not use AWS.

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As someone outside of the AWS trap, I am amazed at how many services people are saying you must use to have file uploads. 2 storage buckets that are charged in 10 different ways, a CDN, a processing server, a "lambda", "media convert", virus scanning and a third party service for resizing.. Extremely unnecessarily over complicated and probably overly expensive.

Yeah, companies really seem to like pissing away their users money on AWS. And then people wonder why everything is an expensive subscription now and somehow Amazon keeps getting richer...

I can think of 100 circumstances off the top of my head where this “cost saving” wouldn’t be net worth it. It very well may be sometimes, too. But your comment is very absolute, and very obviously intentionally so, so you could use this lecturing tone.

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