With AWS as its preferred public cloud
infrastructure provider, The Walt Disney Company leverages AWS’s
proven global infrastructure to improve performance and reliability
for Disney+ as the streaming service continues to scale
globally
Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc.
company (NASDAQ: AMZN), unveiled that The Walt Disney Company is
leveraging AWS for the global rollout of Disney+, one of the
largest online streaming video services in the world. The Walt
Disney Company relies on AWS as its preferred public cloud
infrastructure provider to support the explosive growth of Disney+,
which quickly surpassed 100 million subscribers only 16 months
after launch in November 2019. Leveraging AWS’s fault-tolerant,
highly performant infrastructure, The Walt Disney Company has been
able to rapidly expand Disney+ to 59 countries across North
America, Europe, Asia Pacific, and Latin America.
Disney+ is expanding its use of AWS’s industry-leading services
to include more than 50 technologies, such as machine learning,
database, storage, content delivery, serverless, and analytics. For
example, Disney+ uses Amazon Kinesis (a service that makes it easy
to collect, process, and analyze real-time, streaming data) and
Amazon DynamoDB (AWS’s key-value database that delivers
single-digit millisecond performance at any scale with built-in
encryption and data recovery) to ingest content, metadata, and
billions of customer actions each day, which enables viewers to add
content to their Watch Lists, and start watching a video and pick
it up on a different device, or make recommendations for what to
watch next. Disney+ also uses Amazon Timestream (AWS’s serverless,
time-series database built for large scale ingestion, storage, and
real-time querying of times-series data) to monitor the efficacy of
their streaming platform to ensure that users continue to have
access to the highest quality video content.
After announcing the intent to launch a dedicated streaming
service in August of 2017, The Walt Disney Company spent a year
laying the foundation for the streaming service. Leveraging a
flexible, secured cloud video infrastructure powered by AWS,
Disney+ was able to handle more than 10 million new Disney+
sign-ups within 24 hours of its November 12, 2019 launch. In order
to meet consumers’ high expectations and handle the enormous global
scale required, technologists behind Disney+ collaborated closely
with AWS to balance loads and handle usage spikes to manage the
huge peaks in demand from viewers for premium content like
Hamilton, Mulan, and The Mandalorian.
“Disney+ has completely reinvented what’s possible in content
delivery by challenging convention and using cloud technology to
build a streaming product from scratch that had never been launched
and marketed before on such a global scale,” said Joe Inzerillo,
executive vice president & CTO, direct-to-consumer, The Walt
Disney Company. “AWS has been our preferred cloud provider for
years, and its proven global infrastructure and expansive suite of
services has contributed meaningfully to the incredible success of
Disney+.”
“Disney+ brings beloved characters and timeless stories to a
global audience through world-class direct-to-consumer video
services,” said Carla Stratfold, vice president of AWS global and
strategic accounts at Amazon Web Services, Inc. “Only AWS’s proven
global infrastructure and unparalleled set of capabilities deliver
the reliability, scalability, and breadth of functionality to power
one of the world’s most exciting streaming services and its
expansion around the world. We look forward to continuing to
provide comprehensive cloud capabilities and expertise to The Walt
Disney Company to help them reinvent streaming entertainment for
Disney fans globally.”
About Amazon Web Services
For over 15 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world’s most
comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. AWS has been
continually expanding its services to support virtually any cloud
workload, and it now has more than 200 fully featured services for
compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, machine
learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things
(IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, virtual and augmented reality (VR
and AR), media, and application development, deployment, and
management from 80 Availability Zones (AZs) within 25 geographic
regions, with announced plans for 15 more Availability Zones and
five more AWS Regions in Australia, India, Indonesia, Spain, and
Switzerland. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing
startups, largest enterprises, and leading government
agencies—trust AWS to power their infrastructure, become more
agile, and lower costs. To learn more about AWS, visit
aws.amazon.com.
About Amazon
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than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to
operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews,
1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment
by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets,
Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and
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amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews.
About Disney+
Disney+ is the dedicated streaming home for movies and shows
from Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars, and National Geographic, as
well as the new general entertainment content brand in select
International markets, Star. As part of Disney’s Media and
Entertainment Distribution segment, Disney+ is available on most
internet-connected devices and offers commercial-free programming
with a variety of original feature-length films, documentaries,
live-action and animated series, and short-form content. Alongside
unprecedented access to Disney’s incredible library of film and
television entertainment, the service is also the exclusive
streaming home for the latest releases from The Walt Disney
Studios.
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The Walt Disney Company Jessica Casano-Antonellis
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