Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Prakash Bhasker

Benjamin Aldouby Schwartz

Saurav Sengupta

Akhil Ramachandran

Ryan Farris

Mark DeSpain

Mathew Persons Jack

Jimmy George

Colleen Marie Toth

Jesse Robert Hepburn

Marcin Manek

Matei Mitaru Berceanu

This disclosure describes techniques for distributed storage of files that represent video content across different storage tiers to reduce the amount of computing resources used to store the files, while maintaining a low latency when responding to user requests to stream the video content. Video streaming services support the streaming of video content at different resolutions to support various user devices and/or user preferences. To provide streaming of a particular video content item at different resolutions, the video streaming services may store multiple files that represent the video content item for the different resolutions and stream at different bitrates to user devices. The techniques described herein include storing files configured to stream a video content item at different bitrates (and for different display resolutions) in a tiered storage structure to reduce the amount of computing resources taken to store the files.

Distributed storage of files for video content

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Portland, OR, United States of America

Prakash Bhasker