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Netflix 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-levelth
by mdasen 15y ago
Netflix 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.