Case Study : Netflix using Amazon Web Services(AWS)

 

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 chopping the video content into 5 seconds parts, package it, and then deploy to the content delivery networks.

Architecture used by Netflix on AWS

Netflix is one of the world’s largest online media streaming providers, delivering almost 7 billion hours of videos to nearly 50 million customers in 60 countries per quarter. The company is planning to use AWS Lambda to build rule-based, self-managing infrastructure and replace inefficient processes to reduce the rate of errors and save valuable time.