Scaling Up Prime Video Monitoring Service Reduced Costs 90% (archive) (2023)
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Amazon's Prime Video team reduced their monitoring service costs by 90% through scaling and optimization, sparking discussion about the original article's deletion and the implications of such cost savings.
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