Amazon Prime Video published an article explaining how they saved 90% on cloud computing costs by moving from microservices to a monolith. Let's dig into the details of their software architecture and find out why serverless was a bad choice.

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Resources

Prime Video Serverless Article https://www.primevideotech.com/video-streaming/scaling-up-the-prime-video-audio-video-monitoring-service-and-reducing-costs-by-90
Majestic Monolith https://m.signalvnoise.com/the-majestic-monolith
AWS for Haters https://youtu.be/ZzI9JE0i6Lc

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Topics covered

– Monolith vs Microservice
– Advantages and disadvantages of serverless
– The pitfalls of serverless
-AWS lambda against EC2
– What is a microservice
– How to save money on AWS
– Startups that have left the cloud

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