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		m0zg on July 24, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Justice Department to Open Broad, New Antitrust Re... Netflix does not deliver video from AWS, though. They use it to encode and run other infra, but for streaming they use NAS/streaming FreeBSD boxes co-located in ISP datacenters. If they streamed from AWS, Netflix would be out of business already.

prepend on July 24, 2019 [–]

That’s a good point as the bulk of that transfer isn’t coming from AWS, probably.

This still means YouTube doesn’t need google’s infrastructure to stream video.

m0zg on July 24, 2019 | [–]

It does mean a drastically different cost structure, and major difficulties in operating worldwide.

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