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As per this article, Netflix only migrated their billing infrastructure not their video streaming service.

• luhn 10y ago
  They only migrated their billing infrastructure because the rest of Netflix is already in AWS. As far as I'm aware, the only non-AWS Netflix component remaining is their CDN. (And it will likely remain that way.)
• niftich 10y ago
  That's because they've already migrated their videostreaming infrastructure to AWS (and some in Google Cloud Storage as a failsafe). This Ars Technica article from February summarizes the multi-year effort: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/02/netflix-finishes-its-massive-migration-to-the-amazon-cloud/ http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/02/netfli...
  • ihsw 10y ago
    Just to be clear -- their video streams are still served up via Netflix's OpenConnect appliances. The surrounding infrastructure -- everything "outside" of the play button -- finished moving to AWS. Their billing system has now joined its siblings in living on AWS.
    • niftich 10y ago
      Those being the colocated servers they give to ISPs? EDIT: yes. [1] [2] [1] https://openconnect.netflix.com/ https://openconnect.netflix.com/ [2] http://www.datacenterdynamics.com/content-tracks/colo-cloud/netflix-closes-data-centers-and-goes-to-public-cloud/94615.fullarticle http://www.datacenterdynamics.com/content-tracks/colo-cloud/...
      • tacticus 10y ago
        Also the cdn edges they run themselves. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbqcsHg-Q_o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbqcsHg-Q_o very cool video.