![]() Netflix played 250 million hours of video on a single day in 2017.As a comparison, YouTube streams 1 billion hours of video every day while Facebook streams 110 million hours of video every day. Netflix plays more than 1 billion hours of video each week.Netflix adds more than 5 million new subscribers per quarter.Netflix has nearly $3 billion in revenue per quarter.Netflix operates in more than 200 countries.Netflix has more than 110 million subscribers.To see why let’s look at some impressive Netflix statistics for 2017. It’s far more complicated and interesting than you might imagine. Press play in a Netflix application and video stored in S3 would be streamed from S3, over the internet, directly to your device.Ī completely sensible approach…for a much smaller service.īut that’s not how Netflix works at all. Given our discussion in the What is Cloud Computing? chapter, you might expect Netflix to serve video using AWS. For example, I don't mention the word microservice even once :-) ![]() Keep in mind this article is not a technical deep dive. If there are any errors I'd be more than happy to fix them. I tried to create as coherent a narrative as I could. Facts on the ground change over time and depend who is telling the story and what audience they're addressing. I pulled this chapter together from dozens of sources that were at times somewhat contradictory. So if you are looking for a good introduction to the cloud or know someone who is, please take a look. You can find the ebook at Netflix: What Happens When You Press Play? I've also created a somewhat expanded version of the article in a standalone Kindle ebook. I think even fairly experienced people might get something out of it. I've made some updates and added a few chapters- Netflix: What Happens When You Press Play? and What is Cloud Computing?-that level it up to a couple ticks past beginner. The first release was written specifically for cloud newbies. This article is a chapter from my new book Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10. ![]()
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