Can you provide an analysis of playback architecture of a major streaming service like Netflix or Amazon Prime?
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1) Even before the user clicks on their devices, the CDNs will send health reports about their workload status, routability and available videos to cache control service on EC2
2) The play request from the App will be sent to Playback services on EC2 to get URLs for streaming videos
3) Playback Apps must determine if the play request is valid in order to view the particular video based on subscribers plan, licensing of the video in multiple countries etc.
4) Playback services App talks to steering services to get a list of CDNs for the requested video. Steering service uses clients IP and ISP information to identify suitable CDNs that best work for the client
5) The selected OCA accepts requests and starts playing the video
2) The play request from the App will be sent to Playback services on EC2 to get URLs for streaming videos
3) Playback Apps must determine if the play request is valid in order to view the particular video based on subscribers plan, licensing of the video in multiple countries etc.
4) Playback services App talks to steering services to get a list of CDNs for the requested video. Steering service uses clients IP and ISP information to identify suitable CDNs that best work for the client
5) The selected OCA accepts requests and starts playing the video
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