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by vidarh 581 days ago
Netflix runs core services in AWS, but streaming goes via Open Connect, which involves appliances in the networks of major ISPs.

The Open Connect Wikipedia page [1] currently claims 8,000+ Open Connect Appliances at more than 1,000 ISPs as of 2021, and OCA's in over 52 interchange points.

Netflix is shuffling data at a scale nobody outside maybe a dozen other companies globally needs to deal with, and I doubt any of the social media sites come close.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Connect