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Does anyone know whether Netflix should be concerned with the data Amazon acquires from streaming Netflix videos on its machines, potentially allowing Amazon to
by mikemajzoub 11y ago
Does anyone know whether Netflix should be concerned with the data Amazon acquires from streaming Netflix videos on its machines, potentially allowing Amazon to use this information for competitive business intelligence? Or are there safeguards in place to prevent this from happening?
- otoburb 11y agoThere should be safeguards to prevent this from happening to avoid being sued. To what extent said safeguards are followed is a separate issue. Although, given that Netflix has now launched all over the world, thus implying they've secured content deals for global distribution (which is one of the harder and more valuable competitive differentiators), they may be considering at some point to move to their own datacenters. I understood that once you get big enough, it's cheaper to roll your own bare metal infrastructure (whether you cloudify it or not) rather than rent.
- mikemajzoub 11y agoThanks!
- jsolson 11y agoFirst, the actual video content itself does not, as far as I know, stream from AWS. If you watch in the web player you can see the many requests going out to Netflix's CDN. Given that the website is served up over HTTPS, Amazon doesn't actually have data as to which videos Netflix users are streaming (I believe Netflix's CDN and ISP/edge relationships are independent of AWS). Second, even if they could, it would be an appalling breech of customer trust for Amazon to take advantage of that ability. I do not believe that sort of behavior to be within Amazon's company character (I worked there prior to joining Google).
- mikemajzoub 11y agoThanks - you've given me a good jumping off point to learn more about this!