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Interesting that Netflix (biggest competitor to Amazon Prime Video) still is on AWS. Not sure who is being savvy and who is being short sighted.

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“The best way to express it is that everything you see on Netflix up until the play button is on AWS, the actual video is delivered through our CDN,” Netflix spokesperson Joris Evers said.

http://www.networkworld.com/article/3037428/cloud-computing/...

Yes. I'm aware and they do https://openconnect.netflix.com/en/ - but the point remains that they're both:

1. Giving their largest competitor money

2. Relying on them not to peek at their data for competitive advantage.

Which are the items that Walmart has objections with.

Is Amazon Video really a competitor? Their prime offering is shit. Hulu, to me, is a far more viable competitor. Amazon Video is only good for buying or renting. Their free offerings are terrible.

They've got plenty of great content. A good roster of original shows, lots of classic and new movies and on and on. The fact that you can rent/buy new releases before they are typically on Netflix or Hulu, is a major bonus of the service if you ask me.

Maybe its just harder to parse through then. Whenever I go through the prime videos, I have a hard time finding good content to watch outside of Amazon created series. Where as with netflix, lots of good new, exclusive stand up content and newer videos such as disney classics.

Amazon outside of its own created content seems to lack.

As far as I'm concerned Netflix and Amazon Video are pretty much interchangeable except for exclusive content where Netflix wipes the floor with Amazon.

I've exceedingly rarely been able to find someone on Netflix I wanted to watch when it was not on Amazon. Amazon actually I'd say is the better experience for me, since they'll typically have an option to rent/buy content that they don't have in their unlimited library, where Netflix you're just SoL.

I thought that the content is coming from AWS too. I think they could move away from AWS relatively easily if Amazon acted up.

I think they have the expertise to switch to another solution quite fast and if amazon try something nefarious it would be a very bad signal to their customer and maybe will alert government bodies like the EU's Directorate-General for Competition and others. So is it possible amazon to try this? sure but I will say it's improbable.

Their CDN (which I assume is the majority of their operating costs) isn't.

Sounds like amazon being smart- get paid twice to host streaming video.

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