How big are the Netflix servers and what kind of management do they have?

gu
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Yes, I know the question is random but I'm interested:

How big are the storage servers of Netflix? And are they already in the Pb area?
What kind of internet connection does Netflix have? Have to be already several Gbits

Ni

Netflix uses the Amazon servers

Do you look here:

How big are the Netflix servers and what kind of management do they have

https://de.wikipedia.org/...rastruktur

As a result, the virtually unlimited storage and servers available.

gu

Hm 😂, why does netflix have no own server…

Ma

Why do not you own your own village?

Ni

Why should they, if Amazon offers good conditions? It would be far too expensive to develop a very own infrastructure.

Ja

Too expensive

gu

Haha…

gu

Well, the lack of money will not fail

Ni

You do not think Netflix has that much money to build a server farm that has enough power to serve all its customers?

Above all, there are several server farms. Mind. One per continent. Otherwise the transfer rate would not be that high.

gu

Also correct again 😂

Em

This is normal that even big companies use servers from Google, Amazon & co. Many services, such as Twitter or the one you use on a daily basis, all run on servers of these large corporations because it is simply cheaper and they need to focus on the development rather than the maintenance of the servers.

gu

Makes sense

Ni

Above all, you can change the server configuration at any time. I also use the Amazon servers for my webcrawler and can simply add more servers if necessary.

Ma

No seriously. Would you afford your own village?

Em

True, scalability is also a huge advantage

Ni

You can easily clone a server. Cloning usually takes only 10 seconds. I've cloned my main server a few days ago. There are about 12 TB of data on it. The cloning of the server took 30 seconds… They will certainly have an extremely high bandwidth, so that something is even possible.