What the new video compression strategy from Netflix means for Apple and Amazon

Re:What the new video compression strategy from Netflix mean... by mrdrozdov on Wednesday December 23, 2015 @02:30PM (#10785114)

Major question about this comment.

> They all have the same server farms. Owned by Amazon, no doubt. And there aren’t any technical hurdles. It’s just more computation.

Does Apple use Amazon's servers? I thought Apple ran its own hardware/data centers. I've definitely heard war stories of Apple towing trucks full of racks into the desert so they could bump their capacity for cheap.

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Re:What the new video compression strategy from Netflix mean... by pngat2x on Wednesday December 23, 2015 @04:20PM (#10785730)

http://www.apple.com/business/docs/iOS_Security_Guide.pdf

Page 41, Second paragraph: "The keys, and the file’s metadata, are stored by Apple in the user’s iCloud account. The encrypted chunks of the file are stored, without any user-identifying information, using third-party storage services, such as Amazon S3 and Windows Azure."

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Re:What the new video compression strategy from Netflix mean... by Someone on Wednesday December 23, 2015 @04:25PM (#10785765)

They did about two years ago. http://images.apple.com/iphone/business/docs/iOS_Security_Fe... (emphasis added):

"Each file is broken into chunks and encrypted by iCloud using AES-128 and a key derived from each chunk’s contents that utilizes SHA-256. The keys, and the file’s metadata, are stored by Apple in the user’s iCloud account. The encrypted chunks of the file are stored, without any user-identifying information, using third-party storage services, such as Amazon S3 and Windows Azure."

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Re:What the new video compression strategy from Netflix mean... by TazeTSchnitzel on Wednesday December 23, 2015 @11:29PM (#10787120)

Apple have some of their own data centres, and they also use lots of other people's. They're rather diversified.

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Re:What the new video compression strategy from Netflix mean... by olau on Wednesday December 23, 2015 @03:28PM (#10785458)

Apple's contemplating building a server farm not terribly far from where I live, so no, I don't think they're using Amazon. I think that comment is supposed to mean that they all have access to big clusters, not that it's the same clusters.

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Re:What the new video compression strategy from Netflix mean... by JustSomeNobody on Wednesday December 23, 2015 @03:38PM (#10785507)

All they need is a half dozen powermac supercomputers.

But seriously, could they not be using Amazon until they finish building out their own farm?

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