Spotify - Music Streaming Service

Challenge

Spotify required infrastructure to deliver personalized music streaming to 400M+ users, process billions of songs daily, and run complex recommendation algorithms while maintaining high performance.

Solution

Leveraged AWS EMR for big data processing, S3 for music storage, Lambda for serverless computing, and implemented machine learning pipelines using AWS SageMaker for personalized recommendations.

Results

• Serves 400M+ active users
• Streams 70M+ songs catalog
• Processes billions of events daily
• Operates in 180+ markets
• Real-time personalization

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