May 9, 2023 · Cloud Computing

Why Amazon Prime Video Switched to a Monolith and Cut Cloud Costs

Amazon Prime Video’s engineering team revealed that moving from a distributed micro‑service architecture to a single‑process monolith on EC2 and ECS slashed infrastructure expenses by over 90% while improving scalability, challenging the prevailing belief that serverless and micro‑services are always the most cost‑effective cloud solutions.

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Why Amazon Prime Video Switched to a Monolith and Cut Cloud Costs

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Mar 8, 2016 · Backend Development

How Stack Exchange Scales 40 Billion Requests with a Monolith‑Plus Architecture

David Fullerton explains how Stack Exchange uses a C#‑centric monolith‑plus design, Redis caching, ElasticSearch, and continuous rolling deployments across two data centers to reliably handle billions of monthly requests while maintaining performance and scalability.

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How Stack Exchange Scales 40 Billion Requests with a Monolith‑Plus Architecture