https://www.yashchudasama.com/tags/aws/ Recent content in AWS on Yash Chudasama Hugo en Copyright © 2026, Yash Chudasama; all rights reserved. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.yashchudasama.com/blog/tech/cloud-media-workloads/ Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.yashchudasama.com/blog/tech/cloud-media-workloads/ Cloud providers are optimized for request-response workloads. Real-time media — WebRTC, voice AI, live streaming — breaks their assumptions in fundamental ways. Standard cloud architecture patterns (load balancers, auto-scaling groups, stateless microservices) don’t work for media. Here’s what does, and why the default advice from cloud providers will cost you latency, money, or both. Why Media Workloads Are Different A typical web request hits a load balancer, gets routed to any available instance, processes for 50-200ms, and returns.