Johanna Hendrix

AWS video search

Some of the best resources for Amazon Web Services (AWS) can be found on their YouTube channels (AWS and AWS Events).
You can find on their channel info on all their compute, storage, databases, analytics, networking, mobile, developer tools, management tools, IoT, security, and enterprise products, featured in
  • conference talks,
  • walk throughs,
  • expert discussions,
  • troubleshooting tips,
  • customer presentations
and more.
YouTube's search function leaves a lot to be desired these days. So I built an AWS video search engine myself and make it available here.

About this page...

A few years ago I built a YouTube video search engine, partly because YouTube's built-in search engine can be so bad.

I indexed various video info in a Postgres database, including OCR'd screenshots and transcript info, from channels that I searched/watched often (e.g. cloud providers' channels, to learn about specific features and configurations).

It's still sort of cool, but I haven't been updating the database lately, and have abandoned further development, as:
  • nowadays it would be better to do this via AI, rather than indexing / searching text in a relational database
  • it's only a matter of time until we get more in-depth search functionality for YouTube videos (you can already search YouTube video content via ChatGPT etc. today, though it's still severely limited)
  • and (most importantly) AI has eliminated much of the need to research issues in the first place, or spend hours learning skills through tutorial videos (though it can still be nice to watch e.g. a live presentation from a tech conference, to get a good overview of features and innovations)
This search does not only inspect titles, but also the video content. Due to it being fairly resource intensive I might restrict availability at times.
Some services you can search for/ combine with key words include:
  • Amazon S3
  • Lambda
  • Route 53
  • EBS
  • EFS
  • Amazon RDS
  • DynamoDB
  • API Gateway
  • CloudFront
  • AWS PrivateLink
  • ECS
  • EKS
  • Amazon EC2
  • Amazon SNS
  • Amazon SQS
  • Amazon AppSync
  • AWS Cost Management Services
  • AWS Cost Explorer
  • AWS Budgets
  • AWS Cost and Usage Report
  • Amazon Managed Blockchain
  • Quantum Ledger DB (QLDB)
  • AWS Compute Services
  • EC2 Autoscaling
  • Amazon LightSail
  • Elastic Beanstalk
  • ECR
  • Amazon Athena
  • Amazon CloudSearch
  • Amazon Elastic Search
  • Amazon EMR
  • Amazon Kinesis
  • Amazon Redshift
  • Amazon QuickSight
  • Amazon Data Exchange
  • Amazon Data Pipeline
  • Amazon Glue
  • AWS Lake Formation
  • AWS Application Integration Services
  • AWS Step Functions
  • Amazon AppFlow
  • Amazon EventBridge
  • Amazon MQ (Message Broker)
  • AWS Copilot (Containerized Application CLI)
  • AWS Fargate
  • AWS Database Services
  • Aurora
  • Elasticache
  • Neptune
  • Timestream
  • AWS Network and Content Delivery
  • AWS VPC
  • AWS App Mesh
  • AWS CloudMap
  • AWS Direct Connect
  • Global Accellerator
  • AWS Transit Gateway
  • Elastic Load Balancing
  • AWS Storage
  • FSx for Lustre
  • FSx for Windows File System
  • S3 Glacier
  • AWS Backup
  • AWS Snow
  • AWS Storage Gateway
  • CloudEndure
E.g. you can search for
Lambda,Kinesis
or
RDS,CPU utilization,MySQL
or
Postgres,CloudWatch
(Note: only Patreon members can search for more than 2 keywords in one query. The maximum is currently 3.)