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4 min

Media & OTT Streaming on AWS (2026): Live vs VOD Architecture, Egress Math, and When IVS Beats Elemental

On a composite mid-market OTT platform (~180k concurrent live peak, ~12 TB/month VOD catalog), routing Saturday-night live through MediaConvert batch queues added ~$4,200/mo in idle transcode capacity before switching live to IVS and keeping MediaConvert for catalog only. CloudFront egress still dominates steady-state, so model it before you buy encoders.

Palaniappan P
5 min

Amazon CloudFront Pricing: Regional Tiers, Per-Request Fees, and the Lambda@Edge Surprise

CloudFront bills $0.085/GB egress in North America tiered down to $0.020/GB at extreme volume, plus $0.0075 to $0.0100 per 10K requests, plus origin egress. Regional price classes drop the bill 30 to 60% by skipping expensive geographies. Real-time logs bill $0.01 per million entries plus a Kinesis data stream, so sample them on high-traffic sites. Lambda@Edge is far more expensive than CloudFront Functions.

Kevin W.