That's a ridiculous statement. PrimeVideo is the leader in terms of sports events streaming over internet and it is composed of hundreds of microservices.
Live streaming is just much harder than streaming, and it takes a years of work and a huge headcount to get something good.
It was a single team for a very specific use case.
To be clear when I said that PrimeVideo is composed of hundreds of microservices, I actually meant that it's composed of hundreds of services, themselves composed, more often than not, of multiple microservices.
Depending on your definition of a microservice, my team alone owns dozens.
This comment shows how a very random blog about a very small part of a product can dominate all conversation about it. Prime video famously did not undo anything. Out of 100+ teams one team undid one service. But somehow similar comments are common on HN. I am making no judgement or microservice or not just on this particular comment.
Live streaming is just much harder than streaming, and it takes a years of work and a huge headcount to get something good.