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meltyness ◴[] No.43627980[source]
I wonder how much of Netflix infra is on AWS. Feels like building a castle on someone else's kingdom at that scale; in light of the Prime Video investment, and I guess twitch too.
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r3trohack3r ◴[] No.43628048[source]
Netflix serves nearly all of its video from a server down the street from you via its OpenConnect infrastructure. AWS only hosts its microservice graph that does stuff like determining which videos and qualities you should be offered.

That being said, its core product has been nearly comoditized. When Netflix entered the market, delivering long form high quality video over the public internet was nascent. Now everyone and their grandma can spin up a video streaming service from a vendor.

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1. myvoiceismypass ◴[] No.43631322[source]
AWS also hosts all of Netflix’ internal apps (which probably dwarfs the amount of actual public facing stuff)