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In 2024, Amazon Web Services (AWS) generated ****** billion US dollars with its cloud services. From 2013 until today, the annual revenue of AWS cloud computing and hosting solutions continually increased.

Amazon—additional information Amazon.com went online in 1995, initially as a book store, and achieved almost immediate success. In 1998, the store expanded to include a music and video store and different other products, such as apparel and consumer electronics, in the following years. The company is the undisputed leader of the e-retail market in the United States, ranking ahead of walmart.com and apple.com in terms of revenue. Amazon Web Services In 2006, AWS launched as a cloud computing platform to provide online services. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud and Amazon S3, which provide large virtual computing capacity, are the most well-known of these services. The company has dozens of locations in ** different regions across the world and is continually expanding its global infrastructure to ensure low latency through proximity to the user. From these data centers, Amazon is offering more than *** fully featured services to its global customer base. Video streaming service Netflix is one of AWS’s largest customers, using Amazon’s services to store their content on servers throughout the world. Among its more than *********** active users, AWS also lists other well-known organizations from various industries, such as Disney, the UK Ministry of Justice, Kellogg’s, Guardian News and Media, and the European Space Agency.

Streaming giant, Netflix, entered the Indian market as part of its global rollout in 2016, and recorded a revenue of over ** billion Indian rupees in fiscal year 2024. India’s video streaming market recorded a high growth, with many new players testing the waters. Owing to the growing internet access in urban as well as rural areas in the country, online video and music streaming services have picked up pace. The global growth of Netflix Netflix’s global net income saw increasing revenues in recent years. The number of streaming subscribers for the company continued to grow in recent years as well. As for the Indian market, it was projected that there would be over *** million Netflix subscribers by 2020. Free content versus subscriptions In terms of active monthly users of streaming platforms, Netflix ranked much lower compared to the Indian streaming services like Hotstar and Jio TV. A possible reason for this could be the reluctance among Indians to pay for streaming services. In a 2017 survey regarding people’s spending choice on digital video streaming platforms, preferring advertising-based offers for online video content. Video streaming services including Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Hotstar had been pitted against more than ** Indian rival companies, most of which provide content in regional languages, making it harder to break through the market.

2023 saw Netflix amass approximately **** billion U.S. dollars’ worth of revenue across the Asia-Pacific region alone. Netflix has exhibited dramatic surges in revenue since 2017, when the international video streaming platform reached ***** million U.S. dollars’ worth of revenue in the APAC region. Leading platformsAlongside America’s Netflix and Amazon, Asian video streaming platforms are making a powerful entrance into the subscription video on demand (SVOD) industry. Tencent and iQiyi are the dominant Asian video streaming platforms, which have experienced significant success within the Asia-Pacific region. Baidu’s iQiyi has displayed revenue that has more than tripled from 2016 to 2021. Tencent has echoed iQiyi’s achievements with its own, recording significant increases in its net income from 2010 onward. Nevertheless, competition with Western companies continues to drive Asian video platforms to constantly develop and adapt their own products. While English remains a key, universal language to provide content in, platforms such as Hong Kong’s Viu boast services in over ten different languages, thus making it a strong contender within the SVOD industry, appealing to a wider audience. Increasing demandAs the world’s biggest region has become more digitalized and connected, Asian citizens are starting to explore the video streaming possibilities within their region. With more disposable income available to larger shares of the population, many countries in the Asia-Pacific region are expected to show increases in the number of pay-TV subscriptions.