Amazon S3 for storing video content?

Question

Amazon Web Services

I plan to create a private resource with video content, I'm thinking of using Amazon S3. I uploaded 100 GB of video to the cloud, until I uploaded it to the site. Amazon billed 2 cents for July. I understand that if you start watching a video / jump from this cloud - will Amazon charge money for traffic? How to calculate costs? And is it worth using?
We plan about 1 TB of content, an audience of about 100 - 200 people. The video will be watched through the website online.

Answer 1

Why are you asking, is there a calculator chtol there?)
calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html
For a terabyte $ 120 per month if I did not make a mistake in the calculations. It sucks for me)

Answer 2

When creating private resources, you cannot use Amazon c3. Since all the links there are open. Anyone who gets a link from the source code can share it and anyone can download it. I don't think you want it.
There is a solution for this, but technically it is very complex and will require a lot of time and resources to implement it. And then it depends on the technology that you use on your site.
Here's what I can advise.
as many videos as you want for free. Restrict it either by password or what could be implemented only on your site. And paste it on your website. And it will only be $199 PER YEAR!
You can use other hosting like
https://www.brightcove.com/en/
wistia.com
But there are other amounts. Although on wistia for 25 per month there is already unlimited storage, but only 200 GB of traffic per month.

Answer 3

To use the calculator, there is not enough important information:
- how much content per month each user will consume on average. Or immediately how much traffic will be consumed by all users.
- another important point: will your users receive content immediately from S3 or will the content get to the user through some of your servers from S3?
To reduce the cost of storage, you can use Reduced Redundancy Storage. This is if the storage on S3 is not the only one for you, that is, in the event of an accident, you can upload the content again. But these are pennies of savings. Traffic on Amazon is really not the cheapest. 10TB of downloaded content per month will cost $1350.

Answer 4

You will go broke on traffic.
It is much cheaper to take VDS with a tariff for traffic return.
For example, here 329 euros for a server with a gigabit channel, traffic is not limited.
Or take the services of an inexpensive cdn like this .
The same 10TB will cost 500 euros.
Leaseweb as an example. I think the market prices will be similar.