Spotify starts the transition to the cloud with Google

In recent weeks, we reported the complete passage of Netflix cloud, leaning to the Amazon Web Services services, with the closing of the last physical datacenter. The migration to the cloud seems to be a significant trend among providers of streaming services: Spotify has announced it would move on the Google Cloud Platform much of the technology and infrastructure for delivering streaming of your music content.

Spotify will continue to appoggiasi to Amazon Simple Storage Service for storage of music files and serivizi CloudFront to distribute music through partners, but the core backend infrastructure that is used to process information and data will be moved from their physical datacenter to Google Cloud Platform. 250 000 account of the more than 75 million users have already been transferred, and you will need a year and a half to complete the entire operation.

Spotify says that the move represents a great strategic bargain given that cloud computing is now able to provide the quality you need at affordable cost, a prospect not viable in 2006 when the company started its activities. And it's definitely a deal for Google because the cloud platform, which should become a company with its own identity alongside Google Apps and under Alphabet, is still limping behind Amazon Web Services.