I've seen several cases like this on Amazon, where products are not available to ship to California but should be. In one case I even spoke to the manufacturer who said they got it fixed, then weeks later it was unavailable again.
There's clearly something going on where their systems are being extra cautious on what can and cannot be shipped to CA.
I don't think that's true though? The OAuth provider knows which third parties you have authorized to have access to your account(s) as well as what information or privileges you've approved for each. And when you land on that screen, they know which third party referred you to them.
In other words, they could definitely highlight or otherwise hint to you which of the Google accounts you've already approved/used via one or more of your authenticated Google accounts.
The provider knows you have given those privileges _at some point_ but it doesn't know if that account still exists or anything about the state of the account.
So, yes, they could do more to highlight _potential_ accounts but it's not the case that they have any visibility into the actual state of accounts.
After years of using only laptop keyboards and the Microsoft Sculpt keyboard (which looks and feels like a laptop keyboard on a desk), I could not get comfortable with standard mechanical keyboard travel lengths again.
I picked up a Keychron K15 Pro[1] and have found the low profile keys and travel easy to adapt to. Recommend you give one of theirs (or maybe someone else's) low profile keyboards a try.
Media companies are already taking this approach using ffmpeg, AWS Lambda, and AWS Step Functions. I heard from two companies using such approaches at AWS re:Invent in October 2017, so it's definitely possible.
Rolling your own approach like this is certainly more complex to build/maintain than using Elastic Transcoder though.
If you know that you'll need more than 8 minutes, why wouldn't you just run ffmpeg on EC2? EC2 is now pay-per-second. I haven't looked at the prices recently, is AWS lambda so much cheaper that it's worth jumping through all these extra hoops?
Yes, the pricing is very attractive. Unfortunately it's still buggy, and lacking many simple features you would expect, e.g. duplicate an analysis someone shared with you to modify it without changing their original copy.