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Hotstar with Amazon Web Services for the Era of Gbps speed.

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Fig : 1 Era of Gbps [4] By recent event of jio Technology, nita ambani announced that now it is the era of Gbps in India. (Though right now i’m not having the source.) Here, the hotstar app acquired by star India pvt. Ltd has been given the 5700000 Mbps (5700 Gbps) of bandwidth during a live match, which somehow interesting for any tech enthusiastic person. How exactly hotstar works with the backend architecture that India choose hotstar over netflix and amazon prime video, even having the toughest competition. Hotstar using the following techstack from AWS service. Fig:2 Technology Used for Hotstar[1] Ajit Mohan, the CEO of Hotstar, said “India is the only country in the world where a streaming platform like Hotstar exists, and where the best TV shows from around the world, movie premieres and live sports are available on a single platform” Well, at current point, hearing this feels good, but the question still remains how? At back end side, hotstar uses th