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Interesting what AWS can do at scale. Also important to design for the system limitations. Edit: rewrite
by mey 15y ago
Interesting what AWS can do at scale. Also important to design for the system limitations.
Edit: rewrite
- aramadia 15y agoIt is highly unlikely AWS can handle that kind of load. AWS may be responsible for the netflix interface, but video streaming (the bulk of the data) is handled by CDNs such as Akamai.
- mdasen 15y agoNetflix isn't using AWS for their bandwidth. The media files themselves are being served by Level 3's CDN (http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/11/11/us-levelthree-idUSTRE6AA3IQ20101111 http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/11/11/us-levelthree-idUS...). Netflix is using Amazon for a lot of their application servers, but when you're serving as much bandwidth as Netflix is, you go with a CDN for media distribution. That's not to say AWS is bad or anything, just that AWS isn't supporting all that bandwidth for Netflix.
- dmuino 15y agoThat is mostly correct. Most of the traffic is coming from the CDNs. But we also use Akamai and Limelight in addition to Level3.
- mey 15y agoThanks for the clarification.
- chopsueyar 15y agoAre the files encrypted before placement on the CDN or does the CDN handle the DRM?
- LokiSnake 15y agoI believe the processing (and probably encryption) is done before the CDN using EC2 or some similar service.