A fully automated, event-driven AWS pipeline for ingesting, analyzing, transforming, and archiving dash cam and creative media, with built-in cost control and security.

• Ingest media from home lab/edge (dash cam, content creation) to AWS S3.
• AI Analysis: Automatic object, scene, and content detection (Rekognition, Transcribe).
• Transformation: Multi-format transcoding (MediaConvert) for web/mobile/YouTube.
• Smart Archiving: S3 Intelligent Tiering, Glacier for cost savings.
• Observability: Real-time monitoring, alerting, and FinOps reporting.

Dash Cam/Server --> S3 (Ingest Bucket)
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EventBridge (S3:ObjectCreated)
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Step Functions State Machine
  +--- Lambda: AI Analysis (Rekognition, Transcribe)
  +--- MediaConvert: Transcoding
  +--- Lambda: Archive Decision (S3 Lifecycle)
  +--- CloudFront: Delivery
  +--- SNS/Slack/Discord: Alerts
[All secrets in AWS Secrets Manager]

• AWS account (MFA, IAM best practices)
• Pulumi/Terraform CLI
• Python 3.11+ or Node.js (Lambda)
• Local server for dash cam uploads

git clone https://github.com/yourusername/media-processing-pipeline.git
cd media-processing-pipeline/infra
pip install -r requirements.txt

• Use Pulumi/Terraform to provision all AWS resources.
• Place all sensitive config (bucket names, webhook URLs) in Secrets Manager.

• Script watches dash cam directory, syncs new files to S3 with metadata.
• Includes checksum, source, and timestamp tags.

• Secrets: All secrets in AWS Secrets Manager.
• S3: All buckets private, server-side encryption enabled, Macie scans for PII.
• IAM: Least-privilege roles for all functions/services.
• Alerting: SNS/Slack/Discord for all critical pipeline events.
• Audit: CloudWatch logs for all pipeline steps.

• CloudWatch Dashboards for processing stats and cost metrics.
• Automated alerts for failures or unexpected cost increases.
• S3 lifecycle policies for cost-effective storage.

• Multi-source ingestion (dash cam, content creator, phone)
• SageMaker custom model support
• Automated cost anomaly detection
• Multi-account/org support
• OpenSearch/Grafana dashboards

• Fork, branch, and PR (feat/refactor/fix/chore).
• Security and cost reviews required before merge.
• See CONTRIBUTING.md for team standards.

MIT License. See LICENSE for details.