FFmpeg Reminds AWS Which Services They Power, Unpaid

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A screenshot from X (Twitter) in dark mode. The top tweet, from verified account 'AWS Developers' (@awsdev..., 3h, 1.5K replies, 32 reposts, 710 likes, 124K views), reads: 'Reply to this tweet with "AWS" and we'll tell you which AWS Service you are.' Below it, the official FFmpeg account (@FFmpeg, blue check, green logo, 1h, 24 replies, 49 reposts, 1.1K likes, 11K views) replies: 'We already know which AWS Services we are (and receive zero contributions in return).' The burn lands because AWS media services (Elastic Transcoder, MediaConvert, etc.) are widely understood to be built on FFmpeg, and the FFmpeg project has publicly criticized trillion-dollar companies profiting from volunteer-maintained open source without funding or upstream contributions

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick AWS's personality quiz has one guaranteed result: whatever service you are, the transcoding layer is FFmpeg with a markup

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

AWS's personality quiz has one guaranteed result: whatever service you are, the transcoding layer is FFmpeg with a markup
Anonymous

The architecture diagram says "managed media service"; the dependency graph says `ffmpeg` and unpaid maintainers.
@SamsonovAnton 6mo

Are they, really? What does cloud hosting have to do with video codec software? 🤔
1. @jdndmpy 6mo
  
  https://aws.amazon.com/mediaconvert/
dev_meme 6mo

"non-existent"