The 1,500 Dollar Day: The Egress Bill That Reframed Our Whole Strategy

Sat, 11 Apr 2026 10:00:00 +0530

When I moved transcoding to AWS MediaConvert, I wrote — almost as a footnote — that I had traded a compute problem for a bill I now had to watch. The compute problem was solved: uploads encoded in parallel, the queue stopped climbing, my Celery workers went back to doing app work. The bill was the part I had waved at and moved past. This chapter is that footnote coming to collect.

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The 1,500 Dollar Day: The Egress Bill That Reframed Our Whole Strategy