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That's because they've already migrated their videostreaming infrastructure to AWS (and some in Google Cloud Storage as a failsafe).

This Ars Technica article from February summarizes the multi-year effort: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/02/netfli...

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Just to be clear -- their video streams are still served up via Netflix's OpenConnect appliances. The surrounding infrastructure -- everything "outside" of the play button -- finished moving to AWS.

Their billing system has now joined its siblings in living on AWS.

Those being the colocated servers they give to ISPs?

EDIT: yes. [1] [2]

[1] https://openconnect.netflix.com/ [2] http://www.datacenterdynamics.com/content-tracks/colo-cloud/...

Also the cdn edges they run themselves.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbqcsHg-Q_o

very cool video.

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