👁️ Computer Vision

AWS Just Processed 800K Videos for Pennies—Here's Hollywood's New AI Superpower

Picture this: 800,000 videos, 8,500 hours of footage, indexed for natural language search in just 41 hours. AWS's Nova embeddings make it real—and dirt cheap.

AWS video ingestion pipeline diagram from S3 to Nova embeddings and OpenSearch indexes

⚡ Key Takeaways

  • AWS Nova indexes 792K videos (8,480 hours) in 41 hours for ~$27K/year.
  • Text-to-video, video-to-video, hybrid search unlock video data lakes.
  • Embeddings + tags enable semantic media search at Netflix-scale costs.

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Originally reported by AWS Machine Learning Blog

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