AWS · Media & Entertainment
Elastic transcoding pipeline saved $1.4M in Q1 across global CDN edges.
We rebuilt the video transcoding pipeline as elastic, spot-first workers on AWS — cutting CDN + compute cost 40% and saving $1.4M in the first quarter.
[Saved Q1]
$1.4M
[CDN cost]
-40%
[Peak-time backlog]
0
[ The Problem ]
Where the business was stuck.
Video transcoding pipeline bleeding budget across global CDN edges with unpredictable demand spikes.
[ Key Challenges ]
- ▸Fixed-capacity transcoding fleet always over- or under-sized
- ▸CDN cost inflated by unoptimized bitrates
- ▸Content-team backlog during peaks
Our approach
How we engineered
the outcome.
STEP 01
Spot-first transcoding on EKS with graceful preemption
STEP 02
Per-title encoding + adaptive bitrate optimizer
STEP 03
CDN routing tuned by region and viewer profile
[ Solution highlights ]
Delivered — measured — in production.
- ✓Transcoding cost down 55% on spot + graviton
- ✓CDN cost down 40% via per-title encoding
- ✓Backlog eliminated during peaks
[ Tech stack ]
Built on AWS.
AWS EKS
Graviton
Spot
MediaConvert
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We saved millions in a quarter and shipped faster to viewers. Rare double.
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