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Good on you to build a tool to scratch your itch!

As another poster highlighted, hosting other people's content is tricky. Its certainly not a business I would rather be in. I bet the management of this SaaS service is going to quickly take over your day job.

If you are just hosting your own content you can do it pretty cheaply using the AWS Serverless Image Handler stack:

https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/implementations/serverless-...

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Oh, nice.

Mine isn’t image-based, but I rolled my own CDN using S3 as a backend, Lambda/DynamoDB for some metadata stuff, and Cloudfront as the CDN (so yeah, I didn’t roll my own CDN, I just implemented all the backend upload/admin stuff).

The great part is that it’s stupid cheap for a hobbyist, and Cloudfront has a generous free tier. I can also always swap that part out if it becomes too expensive.

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