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> In my opinion, it's too complex and I'd prefer a more simple solution to get to market faster.

Some folks absolutely need to build their own video encoding pipeline for one reason or another--but the happy path's pretty well-established for folks who just Need Some Video, IMO. At Mux (full disclosure: I'm on the DevEx team there), getting up and running with video is one API call to CreateAsset, followed by a HTTP PUT if your video file isn't already accessible via HTTP somewhere. IMO, hard to be simpler than that.

AWS is expensive, but you're right in that it doesn't have to be. Measuring like-for-like is difficult, and per-minute rather than per-GB pricing tends to make more sense for most developers, but for 1080p content Mux is usually around half the price of AWS IVS. Which, having done this before at a previous job--if you want to stay in all-AWS land, is a way better call for your sanity than trying to hack it out yourself.