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by secabeen 2551 days ago
Netflix still uses AWS for much of their support systems (billing, discovery, etc. etc.) The core business of delivering video is not on AWS and has never been. That runs on their in-house CDN, OpenConnect.
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notyourwork 2551 days ago
> and has never been

I believe this is inaccurate, Netflix was streaming from AWS in their early years IIRC.

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supermanfan 2551 days ago
I have worked at Netflix.

The history is that mainly they used well-known CDNs for streaming, followed by their OpenConnect CDN network now. AWS has always been used for metadata.

https://openconnect.netflix.com/en/

I'm not aware of them streaming from AWS, though it's possible a development group there did a test or something temporarily.

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