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		kelvinjps10 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: YouTube is a mysterious monopoly Majors CDN already exists. They can build on top of cloudfare or Amazon services. If you think about it Amazon it's on a good position to build an alternative,they already have experience with ads and hosting video content

8474_s 5 months ago [–]

AWS-based youtube would be astronomically expensive and much slower than dedicated video servers. Youtube shapes the entire internet total bandwidth.

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