I love this geeky stuff and the way that the Amazon Web Services Developer Connection is beginning to reach out to developers. Their tutorial on Mass Video Conversion Using AWS will have running your own YouTube clone in no time at all using a mix of S3, SQS, EC2, ffmpeg and some Python. As the author, Mitch Garnaat says, this is basically a response to the fact of Amazon rapidly expanding its offering of basic infrastructural web services. There is so much distributed functionality here that you need articles like this one who explained some of the wonderful ways in which it can all be tied together. This article gets into heavy detail as to amazing ways to combine all this new technology.
Mass Video Conversion Using Amazon Web Services
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