Amazon cloud platform to support Disney+ streaming service global rollout

Amazon Web Services said it will provide its cloud platform for The Walt Disney Company's global rollout of the online streaming video service Disney+.

Disney+ has surpassed 100 million subscribers only 16 months after launch in November 2019.

Leveraging the cloud platform, 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 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 absorb content, metadata, and billions of customer actions each day, which allows 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, a time-series database built for large scale absorption, storage, and real-time querying of times-series data, to monitor the efficacy of their streaming platform.