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Case Study : Netflix using Amazon Web Services(AWS)

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  Here, we will study,  How Netflix are using AWS for their Business Expansion and Operation: Netflix Netflix Uses Close to  1,000 Amazon Kinesis  Shards in Parallel to Process Billions of Traffic Flows. Netflix uses AWS for nearly all its computing and storage needs, including databases, analytics, recommendation engines, video transcoding, and more — hundreds of functions that in total use more than  100,000 server  instances on AWS. Netflix  is the online platform for video streaming with  low latency and delay.  In 2009, they moved to AWS cloud to incorporate the  content delivery  throughout the globe. They preferred AWS because they wanted to be more focused on updating, saving and managing instances over the cloud. Netflix is using  dozens of EC2 instances  running across 3 AWS regions. There are hundreds of micro services running and serving 1 billion hours of content serving per month. They use  Amazon S3 for...