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On a composite mid-market OTT platform (~180k concurrent live peak, ~12 TB/month VOD catalog), routing Saturday-night live through MediaConvert batch queues added ~$4,200/mo in idle transcode capacity before switching live to IVS and keeping MediaConvert for catalog only. CloudFront egress still dominates steady-state — model it before you buy encoders.
Palaniappan PCloudFront bills $0.085/GB egress in North America tiered down to $0.020/GB at extreme volume, plus $0.0075–$0.0100 per 10K requests, plus origin egress. Regional price classes drop the bill 30–60% by skipping expensive geographies. Real-time logs at $0.01 per million entries surprise high-traffic sites. Lambda@Edge is dramatically more expensive than CloudFront Functions.
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