Netflix Now The Largest Single Source of Internet Traffic In North America

Re:Netflix Now The Largest Single Source of Internet Traffic... by mdasen on Tuesday May 17, 2011 @12:06PM (#2556773)

Netflix isn't using AWS for their bandwidth. The media files themselves are being served by Level 3's CDN (http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/11/11/us-levelthree-idUS...). Netflix is using Amazon for a lot of their application servers, but when you're serving as much bandwidth as Netflix is, you go with a CDN for media distribution.

That's not to say AWS is bad or anything, just that AWS isn't supporting all that bandwidth for Netflix.

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Re:Netflix Now The Largest Single Source of Internet Traffic... by dmuino on Tuesday May 17, 2011 @01:52PM (#2557156)

That is mostly correct. Most of the traffic is coming from the CDNs. But we also use Akamai and Limelight in addition to Level3.

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Re:Netflix Now The Largest Single Source of Internet Traffic... by chopsueyar on Wednesday May 18, 2011 @10:34AM (#2560258)

Are the files encrypted before placement on the CDN or does the CDN handle the DRM?

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Re:Netflix Now The Largest Single Source of Internet Traffic... by LokiSnake on Wednesday May 18, 2011 @01:43PM (#2560945)

I believe the processing (and probably encryption) is done before the CDN using EC2 or some similar service.

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Re:Netflix Now The Largest Single Source of Internet Traffic... by mey on Tuesday May 17, 2011 @05:26PM (#2557986)

Thanks for the clarification.

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