Some time ago I had to implement an end-to-end application to perform some manipulations (with FFMPEG) on surf video clips that were available in some cloud storage resource (say, S3 buckets).

The app I wrote was a Python software running in AWS Lambda, which would be triggered by messages from ...

AWS Console and EC2 Instance Launch.

• Log in at the AWS Console.
• We're going to use the Classic Wizard for the Instance Creation.
• The free tier is only eligible for the T1 Micro. You can use all the defaults.
• The Wizard is going to ask you to create a ...