Spotify moves its infrastructure to Google Cloud Services
Spotify is in the process of transitioning its infrastructure to Google Cloud Platform. The music service departs from both its own physical data centers and from Amazon, where it previously purchased cloud services.
According to the company, the focus is on bringing music to listeners immediately, but scaling up requires a lot of time and effort. Where previously storage in data centers was bought or rented as close as possible to users, Spotify now no longer considers this necessary. The storage and network services offered through cloud providers are of equally good quality these days and cost little, according to the music streaming service.
Information from Amazon and Spotify shows that the music service used not only its own infrastructure but also Amazon Web Services. In its coverage of the switch to Google Cloud Platform, Spotify does not provide any information as to why they are switching. In the blog, Spotify only says that it is switching from its own physical data centers to the cloud.
The company has now chosen Google because it believes that Google is at the forefront of providing cloud services. The range of data tools would have been the main reason for the choice. For example, the company is interested in the possibilities that tools such as Dataproc and BigQuery offer. According to Spotify, these kinds of options make it possible to work more effectively and efficiently than before. The transition from our own physical data centers to the Google Cloud will take some time. According to Spotify, this is due to the presence of a large and complex backend.
Spotify isn’t the only streaming service to rely on cloud services to deliver their content. Netflix partially entrusted its services to Amazon Web Services earlier this month, a transition that had been in the works for a few years. The streaming service has not fully migrated to the Amazon Cloud. Netflix uses its own network called Open Connect. Open Connect is used via Amazon, but the storage devices with the images that are streamed are located in data centers at internet providers and exchange points.