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It's a fair distinction. Here, I believe, the movie is going AWS Seattle to L3 to the front door of Verizon's consumer network in LA, and Netflix is paying for
by malchow 12y ago
It's a fair distinction. Here, I believe, the movie is going AWS Seattle to L3 to the front door of Verizon's consumer network in LA, and Netflix is paying for it all the way to the front door.
Is that accurate? Or no?
- msandford 12y agoNormally I pay for transit from my house to my ISPs peering points. And other service providers pay their ISPs for transit from their "houses" to the same peering points. In this case Netflix is being forced to pay for transit from their "house" all the way to mine. Not how the internet normally works.
- wmf 12y agoNetflix does not serve video out of AWS. If you're in LA, Netflix is probably serving from a server in LA.
- misframer 12y agoI didn't know that. Can you link to a reference? I thought they used AWS for everything.
- pwarner 12y agobasically they build their own hardware: https://www.netflix.com/openconnect https://www.netflix.com/openconnect you can't put your own hardware at AWS. they are the poster child for using AWS for what it is good for, general purpose compute (storing your play list, the list of all movies, controlling the CDN etc) but I imagine for streaming you need bare metal
- caust1c 12y agoThey're actually one of the most prominent companies with a large deployment of FreeBSD (the OS they use for their CDN). https://www.netflix.com/openconnect/software https://www.netflix.com/openconnect/software
- lemming 12y agoNetflix very publicly went all AWS a couple of years ago: http://techblog.netflix.com/search/label/AWS http://techblog.netflix.com/search/label/AWS.
- jauer 12y agoNetflix CDN is distinct from AWS. AWS may be the origin for content distributed via peering, appliances, and CDN partners but your videos aren't streaming from AWS: https://www.netflix.com/openconnect https://www.netflix.com/openconnect