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Pretty sure all of Netflix runs on AWS and I've got to think that's several orders of magnitude more traffic than Windows updates or xbl.
by weberc2 7y ago
Pretty sure all of Netflix runs on AWS and I've got to think that's several orders of magnitude more traffic than Windows updates or xbl.
- jlgaddis 7y agoFWIW, the video streaming part of Netflix does not run in AWS (but, AIUI, pretty much everything else does).
- weberc2 7y agoOh, TIL I guess. Thanks for the correction.
- ofrzeta 7y agoNetflix hosts video content at ISPs' sites: https://openconnect.netflix.com/en/ https://openconnect.netflix.com/en/
- slenk 7y agoEdge content yes, but everything else is in AWS
- GhettoMaestro 7y agoThe edge traffic makes up 99%+ of the traffic in question.
- slenk 7y agoDo they publish how many ISPs participate? I am sure the big ones do but who knows if local Fiber is connected to someone who is behind an OpenConnect
- sanxiyn 7y agoNon-participating ISPs get it from participating ISPs. Basically no one hits AWS.
- ivnubinas 7y agoDominican here studying Telecommunications. I was giving a tour to the Datacenter of the 3rd largest telecom company in my country. They were using the Netflix box. I was giving a tour to the 4th largest telecom company, they too had the Netflix box. I was told the 1st and 2nd largest telecoms in the country also had the box.
- GhettoMaestro 7y agoMy understanding is that Netflix will pretty much subsidize the cost of the CDN box to nearly any ISP above a certain minimum traffic level ingress from Netflix. Great model to attack the incumbent [transport / transit] carrier costs - end run around the middle-men and drop your CDN boxes directly at the edge (last-mile) ISPs.
- walrus01 7y agoISP here, the netflix cache appliance boxes (a single 1RU server is the minimum) are free, but you have to provide rack space, power and cooling for them. For an ISP in a place like a caribbean island it's a great idea because their upstream/IP transit rates are significantly higher than in the US48 states.