[ben_jones]

Assuming you serve that content out through a CDN a lot of optimization work will be handled there and customization should also be handled there. I’d be shocked if CDNs don’t allow you to do much/all of that out of the box.

Honestly though if this is an authenticated function and you have a small user base… who cares? Is there a reasonable chance at this disrupting any end user services? Maybe it’s not the best way to spend hundreds of hours and thousands of dollars.

Granted you’re an SRE so it’s your job to ideas this. I’d just push back on defaulting to dropping serious resources on a process that might be entirely superfluous for your use case.

[tootie]

If it's AWS there's basically nothing like this available as default. There are transcoding services and edge functions but you need to set them up yourself.