When I saw the $5/mo price, I know it's targeting lowendvps customers from Digital Ocean. But if the management UI of LightSail is still the EC2 one, I will give up. Their UI feels laggy and less intuitive.
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Very interesting talk at Blackhat about the numerous security vulnerabilities CCTV cameras have such as hard coded master passwords in firmware: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaI0xjeefpg
I wonder what the user experience will be since a good experience relies on content loading quickly through CDNs. Netflix mainly uses AWS, Akamai, Limelight and Level 3 along with its own CDN to deliver content. The majority of the new countries do not have local CDN edge nodes.
(This is super frustrating when developing for African and some Asian countries)
It seems Netflix has an uphill battle ahead with regards to content licensing and content delivery.
Netflix mostly uses their own CDN now (AS2906) with PoPs all over the world. AWS runs the non-CDN infrastructure. I'd guess they may use the "local" CDN in some markets while they find interconnection hubs and build out their PoPs.
As far as I know netflix has an open appliance for ISP [1] (internet service providers). I think most of the ISP will care about this when the usage increase, because it will reduce the upstream bandwitch usage.
I haven't dig into it but I am pretty sure that even here in Argentina, ISP are using this thing, because it works incredible fast for HD content. Youtube might use something similar.
I love the flexibility and speed that CDNs provide however I hate the fact that if you are outside the US CDNs get very flaky very quickly. Most of the large providers don't have a Point of Presence (POP) in Africa and large parts of Europe, Russia and Asia are not covered (i.e don't have a close POP). CloudFlare and Akamai are the only companies that have POPs in Africa, it's unfortunate that small players can't use really use Akamai. Aside from the location problems, the lack and / or pricing of HTTPS / TLS really sucks.
> it's unfortunate that small players can't use really use Akamai
Small players can't use Akamai directly, but there are providers (Netflify and probably some others) that use Akamai that are more accessible to the downmarket crowd.
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